Vetted Technical Leads

Tejas Belakavadi Kemparaju

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, microservices, and ML systems

Newark, NJ3y exp

“Primary designer/implementer/maintainer of an open-source JavaScript library for programmatic SSML generation and validation in text-to-speech pipelines. Focused on safety-by-default APIs with vendor-specific extension adapters, strong backward compatibility/deprecation practices, and measurable performance gains by removing redundant validation stages. Emphasizes developer experience through example-driven documentation and systematic community issue triage.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

“New-grad backend engineer who built a real-time genome analysis pipeline, replacing a slow batch system with an event-driven distributed architecture in Python/Redis and a React progress dashboard. Reports ~6x improvement and cutting analysis time from days to hours with zero data loss under peak load, emphasizing reliability patterns like retries and idempotency plus API security (JWT/RBAC/HTTPS).”

“Currently acts as a tech lead for a team of AI agents building a mobile application, with agents handling requirements, design, development, testing, documentation, and JIRA/Confluence updates. Stands out for combining multi-agent orchestration with strong human-in-the-loop review and a clear interest in AI governance and authorization controls.”

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“Solo developer who built and operated an AI debate product end-to-end, from architecture and deployment through observability and post-launch stabilization. They show strong practical LLM production experience—using Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Langfuse, Mem0, and custom RAG—while improving latency to sub-4 seconds, driving failures near zero, and cutting LLM usage by 20%.”

“Unity game developer with experience in both single-player UX-heavy systems and synchronous PvP multiplayer. Implemented a drag-to-target UI flow for a turn-based strategy game that reduced a typical unit turn from ~10 clicks to 1, backed by a modular battle-step architecture. Worked with Photon PUN/Fusion on Cat Simulator 2 (up to 10 players), focusing on data minimization and physics synchronization techniques.”

“Unity VR multiplayer developer who shipped Titan Isles (Quest & Steam) and owned most networked gameplay features. Prioritized and delivered a New Game Plus feature in the first post-launch patch based on creator/review feedback and analytics, supported by automated Unity tests and live-ops triage via Unity Diagnostics and Shortcut.”