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SairamMekala

Backend, full-stack, and systems — from APIs and databases to hardware that has to respond in real time.

01Index

What I build.

Final-year CS student in Hyderabad, currently a tech apprentice at DBS.

I build the backend and the product on top of it, and I am just as comfortable when the failure modes are physical rather than logical. I take freelance work on problems that actually matter.

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • Docker
  • Linux

Backend & APIs

FastAPI and Node services, relational schema design, auth and row-level security, integrations with third-party APIs. Currently going deep on Spring Boot and the JVM ecosystem.

Full-stack products

React and TypeScript front-ends on top of my own APIs. I build things people actually use, then keep maintaining them.

Systems that touch the real world

Embedded firmware, sensor pipelines, MQTT command buses, autonomous control. Systems where the failure modes are physical, not just logical.

02Selected work

Things I have shipped.

Four projects · the ones worth reading in full

01

DeepTrack

Productivity and study tracking platform.

Built it for myself, still use it daily.

  • Every minute of tracked time is attributed to a colour-coded Subject, so the analytics are actually meaningful rather than a generic timer log
  • Pomodoro sessions link directly to a subject, todo, or Kanban card — the timer writes back into the task model instead of sitting beside it
  • Habit tracker and a GitHub-style activity heatmap built on Recharts
  • Postgres schema with row-level security via Supabase, so the data model enforces access rather than the client
  • Live at deep-track.vercel.app · repository private
Stack
  • React 18
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • shadcn/ui
  • Supabase (Postgres + RLS)
  • Recharts
  • @hello-pangea/dnd
Domain
Full-stack · Backend

02

ARCHON

Internal operations and team productivity platform.

Shipped to a team of 120.

  • Full-stack internal operations platform managing tasks, daily targets, meetings, and calendars for 120 users across three distinct roles
  • Authentication and row-level role-based access control over PostgreSQL, enforcing separate data visibility for employees, managers, and administrators
Stack
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • PostgreSQL (Supabase)
  • REST APIs
  • Git
  • Vercel
Domain
Full-stack · Backend

03

Arogyabhashini

Doctor–patient speech translation across a language barrier in a clinical setting.

  • Built around Bhashini, India's national language technology stack, for Indian-language ASR and translation
  • Full speech-to-speech loop: capture, recognise, translate, synthesise — so neither party needs to type or read
  • Started as a hackathon build, then migrated from Flask to a Node backend and deployed
Stack
  • Bhashini ASR
  • Python
  • Flask
  • Node.js
  • speech processing pipeline
Domain
AI/ML · Backend · Full-stack

04

FruitPilot

Autonomous detection and approach drone. Computer vision on an aerial platform.

Team lead, five people.

  • Trained a custom YOLOv8 detector and ran inference on-board a Jetson Nano
  • Estimated relative position and distance from pixel geometry using known camera intrinsics, then drove autonomous yaw alignment through DroneKit
  • Velocity-controlled approach at 0.25 m/s with a scan-and-search behaviour when no target was in frame
  • Most of the real work was failure handling: MAVLink heartbeat timeouts, RPLidar descriptor errors, and flight-mode behaviour that diverged between SITL and the actual airframe
Stack
  • Python
  • YOLOv8
  • OpenCV
  • DroneKit
  • MAVProxy
  • ArduPilot SITL
  • Pixhawk
  • Jetson Nano
  • RPLidar
Domain
AI/ML · Embedded

03Experience

Where I have worked.

4 roles · apprenticeship, founding, freelance, internship

  1. 01

    Jun 2026 — presentActive

    DBS

    Tech Apprentice

    • Selected from 800 applicants for an eight-month apprenticeship in DBS's engineering organisation — enterprise backend systems in a regulated banking environment.
    • Building production-pattern REST services in Java and Spring Boot: layered architecture, dependency injection, Maven builds, and JDBC/JPA persistence over relational databases.
    • Writing and optimising SQL across joins, aggregations and indexed lookups; shipping through Git-based code review on two-week Agile cycles.
  2. 02

    Sep 2025 — presentActive

    Sathvani Pvt Ltd

    Co-founder

    • Technical direction for an assistive speech device — the whole path from multi-sensor embedded acquisition on STM32 and ESP32 through to a cloud inference pipeline on GCP.
    • Provisional patent filed on the underlying sensing and speech-reconstruction method. I own the technical specification and run the IP process with external counsel.
  3. 03

    2026 — presentActive

    Independent

    Freelance software developer

    • Contract work for private clients. Every engagement is under NDA.
  4. 04

    Feb 2025 — Mar 2025

    TechBairn

    Frontend Intern

    • Built product-facing features for Trinidhi, a stock trading and investment platform.
    • React, JavaScript, CSS.

Selected results

  • 2ndof 130 teams

    Demux 2.0BVRIT

    1st in the BotBuilders (IoT) stream

    Sep 2025

  • 5thof 120 teams

    Megathon '25IIIT Hyderabad

    Oct 2025

04Stack

What I work with.

Backend & data

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • REST API design
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase · RLS
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Redis-style caching

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • shadcn/ui

AI & vision

  • PyTorch
  • YOLOv8
  • OpenCV
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • LLM APIs

Systems & infra

  • C / C++
  • ESP32
  • STM32
  • Jetson
  • Pixhawk · ArduPilot
  • MQTT
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • GitHub Actions
  • GCP

Currently learning

Spring Boot & the JVM · AWS · Nginx · Django

Let’stalk

Open to freelance work and full-time roles. I'm most interested in problems with a real purpose behind them.

Email
sairammekala7 at gmail.com