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Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CAGraduate Research Assistant3 years experienceMid-LevelTechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
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Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.

Experience

Graduate Research AssistantUniversity at Buffalo, Connected-Autonomous Vehicle Lab
Software Development EngineerJio Platforms Limited

Education

University at Buffalo, State University of New Yorkmaster, Computer Science - AI/ML (2025)
Vellore Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science - AI/ML (2023)

Key Strengths

  • Evolved internal analytics/reporting backend to support self-service dashboards under high concurrent load
  • Balances performance improvements with simplicity by optimizing existing stack instead of over-engineering
  • API reliability practices: strict schemas/type validation, stateless endpoints, async patterns, background tasks
  • Production security implementation with JWT, RBAC, and PostgreSQL row-level security
  • Risk-managed refactors using incremental rollout, backward-compatible schema changes, and parallel run comparisons
  • Strong observability and rollback discipline: structured logging, metrics (latency/error rates), real-time monitoring, feature-flag rollbacks
  • Identified peak-load failure mode (duplicate requests causing DB timeouts) and mitigated via caching/deduplication and stricter timeouts

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Languages

English

Skills

PythonSQLJavaScriptC++ReactPyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceTransformersRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Fine-tuningGPT-based modelsLlama modelsFAISSLangChain