Sanjay Baskaran | Software Engineer
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Software Engineer
CO, USA
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About

I’m a software engineer focused on backend, platform, and cloud-native systems. I’ve worked across web applications, API-driven services, CI/CD automation, observability, and AI-enabled workflows, with experience turning product requirements into reliable systems. I care about building software that is practical, maintainable, and easy for teams and users to depend on.

Experience

Untitled Film

Founding Software Engineer, CO, USA

Dec 2025 - Present

  • Owned Untitled Film end to end from 0->1, now live at untitled-film.com and seeing early adoption at Loyola Marymount University.

Rule4

Software Engineer, Platform, CO, USA

Aug 2025 - May 2026

  • Worked on Rule4's TFOX platform, contributing to AI-assisted ticket drafting features that reduced manual effort for analyst teams, with focus on retrieval quality, backend integration, and performance visibility.

Vital Farms

Software Development Intern, TX, USA

Jan 2025 - May 2025

  • Worked on forecasting systems for Vital Farms, contributing to data pipelines, feature engineering, and model development for production planning and supply-chain workflows.
  • Focused on translating operational data into practical planning views for inventory risk, supply projections, and weekly decision-making.

Adobe

Software Development Engineer, KA, India

Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Worked on Adobe Experience Cloud backend services supporting content delivery, asset readiness, and downstream product integrations at enterprise scale.
  • Focused on API design, service performance, event-driven processing, Kubernetes release workflows, and production observability for reliable delivery across product teams.

Tata Consultancy Services

Software Development Intern, KA, India

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  • Built a full-stack real estate aggregation platform for consolidating third-party property listings into a searchable web experience.
  • Contributed across backend APIs, React-based interfaces, Redis caching, PostgreSQL query optimization, and scheduled data pipelines for structured 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 reliability engineering engine

for orchestrating chaos drills, scale testing, and live ops observability. Built with React, Python, Redis/Postgres, k6, Chaos Mesh, and GitHub Actions.

ContainrLab

Browser-based container lab platform

with real-time terminals, autograding, and AI hints. Built with Next.js, FastAPI, Docker-in-Docker, and WebSockets, and deployed on AWS Fargate with CI/CD.

CloudArena

Cloud security exercise platform

for sandboxed labs, attack simulations, and MITRE ATT&CK-mapped findings. 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.

Vital Farms Yield Forecasting

End-to-end ML forecasting pipeline

Built a machine learning forecasting pipeline to support production planning and supply-chain decision-making for Vital Farms.

Focused on data extraction, feature engineering, model development, and translating forecast insights into practical recommendations for operational teams.

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

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Google Cloud DigitalOcean Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS CDK Nginx

Tooling & Observability

Linux Jenkins GitHub Actions Helm ArgoCD Maven/JUnit SonarQube Prometheus Grafana Splunk

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Kafka OpenSearch AWS Bedrock Snowflake

Languages

Python Java TypeScript JavaScript Go C++ SQL Shell

Frameworks & APIs

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

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