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Krishna Penukonda

Krishna Penukonda

Full Stack Software Engineer


Background


About

About

As an early engineer at a Y Combinator backed AI startup, I build scalable web-based AI content generation tools from scratch with a bias for fast delivery.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Lead Software EngineerHypotenuse AI (YC Summer '20)

    Jan, 2021 - Present

    Leading the development of an AI content generation platform for e-commerce brands.

    • Developed and maintained full-stack web applications using FastAPI and React.

    • Designed & built

    • Established engineering best practices for the team and mentored junior engineers.

  • Computer Vision EngineerQritive

    Oct, 2018 - Dec, 20182 months

    Developed Object Detection and Instance Segmentation models for use on gigapixel-scale medical images

    • Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV, OpenSlide

  • Computer Vision Engineer, Red Dot Robotics

    May, 2018 - Sep, 20184 months

    Developed real-time Object Detection and Tracking models for deployment on autonomous vehicles

    • Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • AI-Augmented Pathology Research Platform

    - Present

    Final Year Project in collaboration with Qritive

    • Engineered a computer vision model training & inference pipeline to handle very large (1-10 gigapixel) pathology images

    • Designed and built a for pathology image analysis

    • Technologies: Python, PyTorch, OpenCV, OpenSlide

Skills

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence

    Generative AI

    Large Language Models (LLMs)

    Diffusion Models

    PyTorch

    Vector Databases

    Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    Rust

    Go

  • Web Frameworks

    React.js

    Next.js

    FastAPI

  • Databases

    DynamoDB

    Redis

    PostgreSQL

    ElasticSearch

  • Tools & Infrastructure

    Git

    Docker

    OpenTelemetry

    Grafana

  • AWS Services

    Elastic Beanstalk

    DynamoDB

    S3

    AWS ECS

    Lambda

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Singapore University of technology and Design (SUTD)

    - Sep, 2020