Chathrapathi Nikhil Kandagatla

“Technical founder at Mightier, a clinically-validated mental health video game system for kids, where the company has raised $30M. Brings 25+ years of game development experience, has built zero-to-one titles with millions of players, and has scaled core functions from product/dev through QA, customer support, and even manufacturing for a physical-shipping business; currently leading an agentic coding transformation.”

Akhilaa Sonduri

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-powered web apps

Cambridge, MA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at HubSpot, Accolite, and an early-stage USC alumni startup (Workup). Built and shipped end-to-end workflow automation features (dynamic input configuration with strict schema validation) driving ~25% faster configuration, and delivered an AI interview customization feature in a high-ambiguity startup setting that increased adoption by ~40%. Comfortable operating production systems on AWS with CloudWatch observability and CI/CD, and has built real-time web apps with caching/indexing for performance.”

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI pragmatically as a force multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. They stand out for applying structured, agent-style workflows to code generation, debugging, and production log analysis while maintaining strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability in backend and microservices environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”