Headline

fdse @ sarvam | gsoc @ VideoLAN | fullstack ai engineer

About

I am a final-year Information Science & Engineering student passionate about building scalable applications and impactful products. I have hands-on experience in full stack development, backend systems, cloud computing and open-source contributions through internships, Google Summer of Code and personal projects. Highlights: • Google Summer of Code 2023 (VideoLAN): Enhanced Chromecast support and added H.265/HEVC codec support for VLC, improving performance for 2B+ users. • SDE Intern @ Shankh Technologies: Deployed Dockerized microservices on AWS ECS Fargate with auto-scaling, architected a 50K msgs/min Kafka–SNS–SQS pipeline and set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions. • Built projects like Huntify (AI Job Assistant) and RepoGPT (AI-powered code understanding), achieving measurable improvements in performance and user experience. Technical Expertise: • Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS • Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express, tRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets • Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB • Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, Fargate, EC2, S3, RDS), Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Kafka • Exploring: Web3 & Blockchain (dApps, decentralized infra, deployment strategies) I am looking for Full-Time roles as a Founding Engineer at a startup or a Software Developer/Engineer role at a leading company, where I can contribute to building impactful products while growing my expertise in Full Stack, Cloud, DevOps and Web3.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claudecode

Work experience

FDSE at Sarvam, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

FDSE at Sarvam, Dec 2025 - May 2026 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at Shankh Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Feb 2025 - May 2025 · 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Deployed backend comprising Dockerized microservices on AWS ECS Fargate with 2 Application LoadBalancers and auto-scaling (2 to 10 tasks), ensuring scalable infrastructure - Architected messaging pipeline with AWS SNS, SQS and Apache Kafka handling 50K msgs/min and implemented automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS ECR

Google Summer of Code Student Developer at VideoLAN, May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos, - Implemented support for H.265/HEVC video codec, enhancing performance for over 2B+ users. - Optimized Chromecast streaming by resolving sync issues and reducing playback latency. - Gained proficiency in media encoding/decoding, HTTP streaming, and container formats. - Performed tests and resolved bugs in Chromecast HLS streaming and subtitle blending pipelines. - Fixed critical video synchronization bugs in the transcoding module, hence closing a long-standing issue.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science and Engineering, Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology

Class X, Delhi Public School - India

Public links

github: https://github.com/gupta-soham