Sravan Parakala
Troy, NY
sravanparakala@gmail.com
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Experience

Fullstack Developer
May 2025
 — 
September 2024
ReMo

Built and owned marketing website, laid out a development plan for the company as it went forward

  • Designed and implemented a data entry system enabling students to log reading progress and teachers to validate submissions, improving data accuracy and workflow efficiency
  • Developed a recommendation engine proof‑of‑concept using graph‑based collaborative filtering algorithms to enhance user content discovery
  • Rebuilt marketing website to eliminate HubSpot dependency, reducing annual costs by thousands a year.
MLOps Engineer
June 2024
 — 
September 2025
Merck and Company

Hired to bring ML Deployment platform to the same best practices.

  • Built standardized GitHub Actions, accelerating model deployment from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 days and enabling faster production releases across data science teams
  • Switched all MLOps from AWS EC2 to AWS Lambda to save compute resources and reduce dependence on shared EC2 fleet.
  • Authored comprehensive documentation in Atlassian Confluence for CI/CD orchestration and maintenance within the MLOps template, improving developer onboarding and system reliability
Student Mentor
August 2022
 — 
May 2026
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hired as a Student Mentor Introduction to Computer Science. Eventually became a Teaching Assistant for Software Design and Documentation.

  • Introduction to Computer Science:
  • Taught for the largest individual class at RPI
  • Held office hours, graded exams, tutored students, and proposed curriculum changes.
  • Software Design and Documentation:
  • Took responsibility for several teams success, met with them each week assessed their needs and provided them with the relevant resources and insight from my own projects.
  • Mediated disputes within groups and fostered a culture of over communication.
Project Lead
August 2022
 — 
May 2025
RCOS

Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of Mentor and then Project Lead.

  • Built Colorblind-friendly UI features for a project used by hundreds of students each year.
  • Built multiple features to improve visibility and transparency in energy consumption
  • Started my own project to help food vendors to not rely on high cost apps to maintain a delivery service.
  • Helped 30+ students build their own projects by holding seminars about git, front-end and back-end tools, AI, and many more
Founder
November 2024
 — 
Present
artist2vec

Cartesian representation of artist relationship data using over 7000 of the worlds most popular artists in the worlds most popular genres.

Relationship Director
January 2025
 — 
Present
GDGC@RPI

Connecting young aspiring software engineers with industry professionals to bridge the expectation gap between both groups.

  • Grew RPI campus developer community and focused on fostering RPI's relationship with the capital district.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
August 2021
 — 
May 2025
Bachelors in Computer Science
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Database Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Machine Learning
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
August 2025
 — 
May 2026
Masters in Computer Science

Awards

Rensselaer Leadership Award
Present
 — 
Present
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dean's Honor List
Present
 — 
Present
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Skills

Frontend:
HTML / JSX, Javascript / Typescript, React / Next
Backend:
Node, Ruby, Python, Postgres, Redis, Serverless
Devops:
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Caching, GitHub Actions, Jenkins CI, Docker
Coursework:
Data Structures, Introduction to algorithms, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Machine Learning from Data, Robotics, Software Design and Documentation, Data Analytics Data Mining, Foundations of HCI, Cloud Security