Sreecharan Desu
Full-Stack Engineer · TypeScript · React / Next.js · Node.js · PostgreSQL
Ongole, India (IST) · Open to remote roles
Summary
Full-stack engineer (TypeScript, React / Next.js, Node.js, Python / FastAPI, PostgreSQL). Forward Deployed Engineer at Manuscripts since Oct 2026; before that, Software Engineer Intern at ABC Chess. 11 merged upstream PRs: Mozilla FxA (6), Apache Airflow (2), Cal.com, Brave, Oppia. Built and maintains UniZ, a side-project campus platform used by 1,500+ students at RGUKT Ongole. B.Tech CSE at IIIT AP (RGUKT), CGPA 9.3/10, class of 2027.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering | IIIT AP (RGUKT) | CGPA 9.3/10
2023 – 2027
Coursework: Distributed Systems, Databases, DSA, Operating Systems, Computer Networks · Minor in Quantum Computing
Pre-University Course (MPC) | IIIT AP (RGUKT) | CGPA 9.74/10
2021 – 2023
RGUKT AP entrance rank 967 / 75,000+ (2021)
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer | Manuscripts
Oct 2026 – Present
On-site · Guntur, India · Angadi
- Forward Deployed Engineer on Angadi, the Manuscripts product, working on-site with the team in Guntur.
Software Engineer Intern | ABC Chess
Jan 2026 – Sep 2026 · 9 mos
Remote · chess education SaaS and school LMS
- Built coach dashboards, curriculum tooling, classroom flows, and role-based access for the abcchess.org school LMS, from DynamoDB data models to the UI.
Software Engineer Intern | DocgenAI (now Auditlo)
Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 · 2 mos
AI documentation startup · Remote
- Owned the React frontend for LLM doc-generation APIs; added loading and error states so long-running generations stayed usable.
- Added client-side caching for repeat doc fetches and covered core UI flows with Jest tests.
Open Source
Contributor · Mozilla FxA, Apache Airflow, Cal.com, Brave, Oppia
Feb 2026 – Present
- Mozilla FxA (6 merged): configurable session-token expiry (fxa#20801), StatsD histogram mock for auth-server (fxa#20799), CJK button-label layout fix (fxa#20724), localized secondary-email status (fxa#19929), plus fxa#20800 and fxa#19930.
- Apache Airflow: separated empty plugin folders from plugin load failures in logs (airflow#72432) and documented Colima / DOCKER_HOST for Breeze (airflow#72431).
- Cal.com: instance URL in push test notifications (cal.diy#29673) · Brave Search MCP Server: image-search offset docs fix (#348) · Oppia: removed @ts-nocheck from Group 12 domain specs (oppia#27839). All merged PRs
Selected Projects
HRMS Backend | FastAPI, async SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis
github.com/sreecharan-desu/hrms-backend
- Clean-architecture HR API with 8-role RBAC cached in Redis and presigned S3 document uploads.
- Local benchmark (8 vCPU VM, k6): 247 tests, 88% line coverage; 798 req/s at p95 106 ms on the paginated employee list (50 VUs).
Promptimizer | Next.js, FastAPI, Redis, Postgres
github.com/sreecharan-desu/promptimizer
- OpenAI-compatible LLM router: classifies each request, picks the cheapest adequate model, caches prompts, checks quality.
- Local benchmark: 19,727 req/s at p95 4.73 ms on /v1/classify (50 VUs; router overhead only).
Yuzu | Swift, macOS
github.com/sreecharan-desu/yuzu
- Native macOS menu-bar app: drag a file, tap a key, and a ring under the pointer converts, edits, or acts on it locally.
- About 270 conversion pairs and 26 tools; ring opens in a median 8.8 ms (M1 MacBook Air, local measurement).
UniZ | React, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Side-project campus platform in production at RGUKT Ongole, used by 1,500+ students across all four years of engineering, with JWT RBAC and resource-tracking dashboards.
- Merged a long series of performance, database, and infrastructure PRs in the uniz-master repo.
Achievements
- Winner - Zenith Hackathon (MLRIT), ranked #1 of 38 teams (national level)
- 3rd Place - VR Siddhartha National Hackathon
- Runner-up - GENESIS 2026 (SRM University-AP), AI/ML track with Promptimizer, 300+ teams
- Flipkart Grid - Round 2 (3rd year), Round 4 (final year)
- Top 1% in state entrance examination - Rank 967 of 75,000+ candidates
Certifications
- Foundations of Deep Learning: Concepts and Applications - NPTEL, IISc Bangalore (May 2026)
- Object Oriented System Development Using UML, Java and Patterns - NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur (May 2026)
- Cloud Computing - NPTEL, IIT Kharagpur (November 2025) · Top 1% badge
Interests
Backend Systems · Distributed Systems · Open Source · AI Engineering · Tech content creation (YouTube) · Chess · Reading · Music · Dancing · Building in public since 2023