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Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi

Founder, Chitram.AI | Startups

Bengaluru

11+ years of work experience

Chitram.AI
May 20233 yrs 6 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

– Generative AI Integration: Used AI to generate plot ideas, dialogue, and character sketches, reducing first-draft creation time by 75%. – Writing Efficiency: Improved writing speed by 60% with AI-assisted completions, rewrites, and editing. – Multilingual Support: Implemented translation for stories and scripts to help actors understand content in their native languages, reducing narration time for direction teams. – Production Estimation: Applied AI to analyze script complexity for accurate production timelines and resource planning.
Independent Consultant
Mar 20203 yrs 3 mosMay 2023

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Key Roles and Projects: - Lead Engineer, Conektto Inc - https://www.conektto.io/ Developed sophisticated visual workflow automation tools incorporating AI models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 to improve API design and code generation processes. - Lead Engineer, Riff Analytics (Esme Learning Inc) - https://riffanalytics.ai/ Initiated the development of AI-powered behavioral analytics tools that significantly enhance meeting efficiency and collaborative productivity. - Lead Engineer, ESPNCricInfo via ESPN / Disney and Proximity Labs - https://www.espncricinfo.com/ Led the technological revamp of a primary sports website, introducing real-time updates and improved UI/UX, optimizing for high-performance, real-time data engagements.
The Wedding Brigade
May 20172 yrs 11 mosMar 2020

Mumbai Area, India

– Rebuilt the tech platform from scratch by replacing fragmented PHP stacks with a scalable, unified architecture – Formed and led an in-house full-stack team, delivering web and mobile products that enabled 20× revenue growth – Worked closely with business, content, services, marketing, and e-commerce leaders to align product with growth goals
Coverfox Insurance
Nov 20151 yr 8 mosJun 2017

Mumbai Area, India

- Focused primarily on developing Car Insurance and Bike Insurance products utilizing Python/Django, Celery, and React. - Successfully established a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline, leveraging Docker, Jenkins, and GitHub hooks to streamline the software release process. - Effectively managed the Software Development cycle through periodic Sprints, ensuring efficient project delivery and adherence to timelines. - Facilitated knowledge sharing and skill development among software engineers by organizing Office hours and providing guidance on Python programming.
TinyOwl
Apr 20158 mosNov 2015

Mumbai Area, India

- We orchestrated the migration of a monolithic Food ordering application, developed with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and AWS, into a distributed architecture comprising multiple microservices. - Designed, developed, and oversaw the implementation of essential services, including inventory management, location management, and notifications management, ensuring smooth operations and effective communication within the application.
GitHub
@Balu-Varanasi

Bala’s AI Stack

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Education

Vishnu Institute of Technology (Autonomous)

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology

Vishnu Institute of Technology (Autonomous)

20084 yrs2012

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Headline

Founder, Chitram.AI | Startups

About

Software Engineer skilled in full-stack development, AI (ML & NLP), specializing in designing scalable, distributed, performance-intensive, event-driven systems and workflow automation.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

gemini

grok

langchain

Work experience

Founder and CEO at Chitram.AI, May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, – Generative AI Integration: Used AI to generate plot ideas, dialogue, and character sketches, reducing first-draft creation time by 75%. – Writing Efficiency: Improved writing speed by 60% with AI-assisted completions, rewrites, and editing. – Multilingual Support: Implemented translation for stories and scripts to help actors understand content in their native languages, reducing narration time for direction teams. – Production Estimation: Applied AI to analyze script complexity for accurate production timelines and resource planning.

Lead Software Engineer at Independent Consultant, Mar 2020 - May 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Key Roles and Projects: - Lead Engineer, Conektto Inc - https://www.conektto.io/ Developed sophisticated visual workflow automation tools incorporating AI models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 to improve API design and code generation processes. - Lead Engineer, Riff Analytics (Esme Learning Inc) - https://riffanalytics.ai/ Initiated the development of AI-powered behavioral analytics tools that significantly enhance meeting efficiency and collaborative productivity. - Lead Engineer, ESPNCricInfo via ESPN / Disney and Proximity Labs - https://www.espncricinfo.com/ Led the technological revamp of a primary sports website, introducing real-time updates and improved UI/UX, optimizing for high-performance, real-time data engagements.

Chief Technology Officer at The Wedding Brigade, May 2017 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Mumbai Area, India, – Rebuilt the tech platform from scratch by replacing fragmented PHP stacks with a scalable, unified architecture – Formed and led an in-house full-stack team, delivering web and mobile products that enabled 20× revenue growth – Worked closely with business, content, services, marketing, and e-commerce leaders to align product with growth goals

Senior Software Engineer at Coverfox Insurance, Nov 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mumbai Area, India, - Focused primarily on developing Car Insurance and Bike Insurance products utilizing Python/Django, Celery, and React. - Successfully established a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline, leveraging Docker, Jenkins, and GitHub hooks to streamline the software release process. - Effectively managed the Software Development cycle through periodic Sprints, ensuring efficient project delivery and adherence to timelines. - Facilitated knowledge sharing and skill development among software engineers by organizing Office hours and providing guidance on Python programming.

Software Engineer at TinyOwl, Apr 2015 - Nov 2015 · 8 mos, Mumbai Area, India, - We orchestrated the migration of a monolithic Food ordering application, developed with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and AWS, into a distributed architecture comprising multiple microservices. - Designed, developed, and oversaw the implementation of essential services, including inventory management, location management, and notifications management, ensuring smooth operations and effective communication within the application.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Vishnu Institute of Technology (Autonomous)

Public links

github: https://github.com/Balu-Varanasi