Sanjay Baskaran | Software Engineer
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Software Engineer
CO, USA
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About

I’m a software engineer focused on practical product and platform systems. I’ve worked across web applications, backend services, cloud infrastructure, observability, data workflows, and AI-assisted tooling, with experience turning product requirements into reliable systems. I care about building software that is maintainable and easy for teams and users to depend on.

Experience

Untitled Film

Founding Software Engineer, CO, USA

Dec 2025 - Present

  • Built and launched a video platform across filmmaker, industry, and admin workflows, with media processing, release automation, and production monitoring.

Rule4

Software Engineer, AI Platform, CO, USA

Aug 2025 - May 2026

  • Built AI-assisted ticket drafting workflows for analyst teams, connecting tenant-aware retrieval, backend services, and observability around grounded agent output.

Vital Farms

Software Development Intern, TX, USA

Jan 2025 - May 2025

  • Built forecasting and planning tools for Vital Farms, connecting supply-chain data, model development, and operational reporting for production decisions.

Adobe

Software Development Engineer, KA, India

Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Built backend services and integrations for Adobe Experience Manager Assets, with work across ingestion, content delivery, cloud storage imports, Kubernetes-based processing, and production observability.

Tata Consultancy Services

Software Development Intern, KA, India

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  • Built a real estate aggregation platform, working across backend APIs, React interfaces, caching, database queries, and scheduled data pipelines for searchable listing data.

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Master of Science in Computer Science

Aug 2024 - May 2026

Relevant Coursework: Datacenter Scale Computing, Network Systems, Database Systems, Big Data Architecture, Intro to Computing Security

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Jul 2018 - May 2022

Relevant Coursework: Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Data Structures and Algorithms

Projects

Dev2Prod

Kubernetes resilience platform

for fault injection, load testing, and live recovery observability. Built with React, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, k6, Chaos Mesh, and Kubernetes.

ContainrLab

Browser-based container lab

with isolated sandboxes, real-time terminals, automated validation, and AI-assisted hints. Built with Next.js, FastAPI, Docker-in-Docker, WebSockets, and AWS ECS.

CloudArena

AWS security simulation platform

for sandboxed labs, attack simulations, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped findings, and remediation reporting. Built with FastAPI, Celery, Redis, Terraform, and Gemini.

monkeytype-desktop

Offline-first typing practice app for macOS

with local storage, custom theming, and zero server dependencies. Built with Tauri and designed as a fully self-contained typing practice experience.

Bishop

Context-aware mobile notification engine

for intelligent, real-time location-based push alerts. Built with React Native and Expo, with Firebase for authentication and messaging, background geolocation tracking, and a GCP-hosted ML model exposed via REST APIs.

Demucs Audio Separator

Distributed audio separation service

powered by Demucs on GCP. Built with Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers, Redis for job queueing, and MinIO for scalable S3-compatible storage.

Certifications

Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified

GitHub Foundations

GitHub Certified

Security Analyst (SSC/Q0901) NSQF Level 7

National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

Skills

Languages

Python Java TypeScript JavaScript SQL Shell C++

Frameworks & APIs

FastAPI Django Spring Boot Node.js Express Next.js React REST GraphQL WebSockets

AI Systems

AWS Bedrock OpenAI API Gemini API LangChain Model Context Protocol RAG Vector Search Agentic Workflows LLM Evaluation

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Kafka OpenSearch Snowflake

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS ECS EKS Lambda S3 RDS SQS GCP Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS CDK

DevOps & Observability

Linux GitHub Actions Jenkins Argo CD Helm Maven JUnit SonarQube CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana Splunk Langfuse

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