Headline

Full Stack Software Engineer | Building production Python APIs & ML pipelines at Skylark Drones | TypeScript | Django | DevOps | AWS | Microservices

About

I build systems that own their outcomes — not just their uptime. At Skylark Drones, I've spent the last 2+ years as a full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production drone intelligence platform: Python microservices on AWS Fargate, a Vue frontend handling 18,000+ image datasets, ML inference pipelines on GPU-backed EC2, and five production release cycles as coordinator. Some things I've shipped that I'm proud of: → Redesigned a folder-linking refresh architecture to be subtree-aware — 45s load time down to 8s without changing the backend API contract → Eliminated N+1 query bottlenecks across core REST APIs — 37 database round-trips down to 5 via Django ORM optimisation → Integrated Segment-Anything (SAM) into production annotation workflows — 90% throughput increase, async inference with confidence-threshold review gates → Built benchmarking infrastructure across EC2 instance families — 25% infra cost reduction at same model performance Beyond the code: I've led cross-product integrations between separate engineering teams, given demos to enterprise clients, mentored interns, and coordinated zero-delay production rollouts under real pressure. I also run TechShots60 — a tech education channel with 40,000+ followers — because the fastest way to understand something deeply is to explain it simply. Based in Bengaluru. Contact: abhinav.kumar2712@gmail.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Software Engineer at Skylark Drones, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, • Redesigned a folder-linking UI refresh strategy for 18,000+ drone images to be subtree-aware — only refetching when the affected folder intersects the current view. Load time: 45s → 8s. Not a patch — an architectural decision with the help of AI driven development workflows • Designed and built 4+ Python microservices from scratch (FastAPI/Flask) with fault isolation, async patterns, and end-to-end AWS integration — each service independently deployable so a failure in one doesn't cascade to others. • Eliminated N+1 query bottlenecks across core Django REST APIs using select_related and prefetch_related — reducing database round-trips from 37 to 5 and significantly improving production PostgreSQL response latency. • Migrated ML inference workloads from CPU to GPU-backed EC2 instances; designed benchmarking utilities tracking spin-up time, RAM utilisation, spot interruption rates, and cost per inference — resulting in 25% infrastructure cost reduction at equivalent model performance. • Implemented an AWS spot instance capacity fallback mechanism (InsufficientInstanceCapacity handling) — eliminating production ML pipeline outages caused by spot unavailability. • Acted as cross-product integration lead between two internal platforms: designed secure REST API contracts, implemented API-key authorisation, and provided end-to-end onboarding to the partner engineering team. • Served as Release Coordinator across 5 production cycles — owning deployment scheduling, stakeholder communication, and real-time issue triage with zero-delay rollouts. • Reduced CI/CD deployment time by 50% by replacing remote GitLab shared runners with locally configured dedicated runners, eliminating queue wait and cold-start cache misses. • Led on-premises deployment of a critical microservice with Nginx reverse proxy and SSL (Certbot) — extending the platform's enterprise readiness to air-gapped client environments.

Content Creator at Techshots, Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Present Building a tech education channel on Instagram with 40,000+ followers — focused on making software engineering concepts, DSA, and system design genuinely simple to understand. Started it as a way to force myself to understand things deeply enough to explain them clearly. That discipline — translate the complex into the simple — shapes how I write documentation, give demos, and communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders. Format: short-form video (Reels). Niche: developers at all levels.

SDE intern at Skylark Drones, Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Integrated Meta's Segment-Anything Model (SAM) into production drone imagery annotation workflows — increasing throughput by 90% by replacing manual polygon drawing with AI-assisted segmentation. Handled latency via async inference queuing and added confidence-threshold review gates to prevent low-quality predictions from entering training data. • Built a Mapbox-powered browser-based annotation interface for custom ML models — reducing annotation cycle times from days (desktop GIS tools + file handoffs) to minutes via direct streaming from the platform. • Designed dynamic Vue.js components in TypeScript for real-time telemetry updates using WebSocket connections — type-safe payloads ensured schema changes in drone data didn't silently break the UI.

Devops Intern at Easebuzz, Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 · 3 mos, Pune District, • Improved deployment efficiency by 40% through CI/CD pipeline optimisations with Jenkins — parallel stage execution, dependency caching, and artifact reuse across builds. • Architected ELK stack + Grafana integration for centralised log aggregation and real-time infrastructure monitoring across microservices deployed on AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS).

Senior Communication Subsystem Member at Parikshit Student Satellite, Dec 2022 - Aug 2023 · 9 mos, Udipi, Karnataka, India

Team Member at Parikshit Student Satellite, Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs, Udipi, Karnataka, India

Taskphase Recruit at Parikshit Student Satellite, Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 · 3 mos, Udipi, Karnataka, India

Full-stack Developer at Mind Commute, Sep 2020 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs, - Built and developed an innovative mental health website, orchestrating a captivating front-end interface through the integration of HTML, CSS5, JS, and Bootstrap. - Orchestrated a dynamic user experience powered by the cutting-edge Python Django Framework, catalyzing an astonishing 100+ registered users in user engagement and invaluable feedback.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, EIE, Manipal institute of technology

High School Diploma, PCM with CS, The Khaitan School

Public links

github: https://github.com/abhinav2712