I'm a software engineer with a strong foundation in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and applied ML. I like working on problems where getting it wrong has real consequences — and building the kind of software that holds up when it matters.
My background spans backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and applied AI. I've built things from scratch and shipped them to real users, and I care as much about clean architecture as I do about the problem being worth solving.
Here's some recent work I'm proud of:
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Lodestar — an ELT analytics platform built to strengthen my data engineering foundations. Airflow for orchestration, dbt for transformation and warehouse modeling, and Terraform for infrastructure as code. End-to-end verified from ingestion through transformed, analytics-ready tables.
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Tideline — a CDC streaming lakehouse. Debezium captures change data from Postgres, Kafka handles the transport, Spark does the streaming processing, and Delta Lake/Iceberg provides the lakehouse storage layer. Ran the full live Docker stack myself end-to-end and validated real (not just simulated) pipeline metrics.
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Argus — a self-hosted Datadog alternative with real-time ML anomaly detection. Kafka ingestion, Spark streaming, Isolation Forest + LSTM Autoencoders, TimescaleDB, live WebSocket dashboard. Built it because observability tooling shouldn't cost $40k/year.
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Meridian — a multi-agent LLM research assistant that plans, retrieves, critiques, and synthesizes answers with full source attribution. LangGraph orchestration, FAISS semantic search, RAGAS evaluation, MLflow tracking. Powered by Claude.
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NexLedger — a distributed banking backend with event-driven CQRS, Kafka-based saga orchestration, Redis idempotency, and reactive fraud scoring. The kind of system where correctness isn't optional.
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CourtAccess AI — real-time courtroom interpretation and legal document translation for the Massachusetts Trial Court. OCR, PII redaction, LLM translation, role-gated React frontend. Presented at a Google expo. Built it because access to justice shouldn't depend on what language you speak.
I'm actively looking for roles in Backend Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML Engineering, or Full-Stack Development. AI/ML Engineering, or Full-Stack Development. On OPT, STEM extension eligible, available immediately.
Languages
Python · Java · C++ · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL · HTML5 · CSS3 · Data Structures & Algorithms
Data Engineering
Airflow · dbt · Kafka · Debezium (CDC) · Spark / PySpark · Delta Lake · Apache Iceberg · Terraform (IaC) · Warehouse Modeling · TimescaleDB
Libraries / ML
Scikit-Learn · TensorFlow · Keras · PyTorch · NumPy · Pandas
Frameworks
Node.js · React · Express.js · Spring Boot · FastAPI
Databases
MySQL · MSSQL · MongoDB · NoSQL
Cloud Platforms
AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda) · GCP · Azure
Tools
Git · GitHub · SSMS · QGIS · Power BI · Power Query
Other Algorithms · Data Structures · Object Oriented Programming · Software Development · MS Office Suite · Google Suite
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Environmental Impact Analysis using Satellite Image Processing
Presented at IEEE 4th ASIANCON 2024 -
Optimising Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Devices
Presented at ICAECT 2024
- AWS Academy Graduate — Cloud Architecting · Amazon Web Services · April 2026 · View Badge
- AWS Academy Graduate — Cloud Foundations · Amazon Web Services · February 2026 · View Badge
- The Basics of Google Cloud Compute Skill Badge · July 2026 · View Badge·
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smriti-reddy
- Email: u.smritireddy@gmail.com
I’m always open to collaborating on interesting software, systems, data, or ML projects.