Rushal Adesh Butala

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native backend services

Boston, MAFounding Engineer2 years experienceJuniorTechnologySaaSGovernment

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Founding engineer at a civic-tech startup (Barrow) who built and operated a Next.js/TypeScript product with map-based public reporting, including clustering and dynamic geospatial loading to improve UX and performance. Also implemented a location-aware RAG chatbot using Pinecone, web scraping/transcription, caching, and fallback web search, and owned post-launch observability plus scaling decisions (load balancing/horizontal scaling) based on API usage patterns.

Experience

Founding EngineerBorough

Software EngineerSavance

Software EngineerItlize Global

Software Engineering InternThe Bulletin.io

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbormaster, Information Science (Systems + HCI) (2025)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignbachelor, Computer Science (2022)

Key Strengths

Founding engineer experience shipping full-stack Next.js/TypeScript features end-to-end
Performance optimization for map-heavy UX via parallel fetching, prefetch-without-render, and dynamic rendering by bounding box
Production ownership post-launch: observability-driven debugging, scaling decisions, and cost/performance tuning
Designed data models and query strategies combining relational links with geospatial filtering and caching/virtualized neighborhood views
Built a robust RAG chatbot workflow with location-scoped vector stores, caching, fallback web search, and scheduled knowledge-base refresh
Balances MVP speed vs. quality/security with pragmatic architecture choices (e.g., Firebase early with migration readiness)