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Surya Nelakanti

i build things | Abnormal AI

Greater Bengaluru Area

5+ years of work experience

Abnormal AI
Sep 20251 yrPresent

0→1 engineer on AI Phishing Coach (AIPC), turning real attacks into localized simulations and training; scaling to 500+ enterprise customers (incl. Fortune 500s)
Abnormal AI
Jan 20258 mosAug 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AEREO
Dec 20231 yr 2 mosJan 2025

Hybrid

Founding engineer on the platform team; owned major parts of the cloud processing pipeline (frontend + backend) for drone imagery → maps/3D deliverables. Built processing UI for job configuration, multi-stage progress tracking, log inspection, and output review. Implemented backend workflows in Python/Django: job submission, background processing, status persistence, and access-control integration. Built feature combining 10k+ records with validation/pre-filtering to merge surveys/tiles into coherent views. Engineered dynamic queuing + upload pipeline for 100+ GB datasets; reduced upload failure rates from ~18% to ~1%. Improved photogrammetry output accuracy by ~30% via pixel alignment techniques in the frontend, reducing reruns.
AEREO
Nov 20212 yrs 2 mosDec 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

AEREO
Aug 20214 mosNov 2021

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Viatris
Nov 20204 mosFeb 2021

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- During internship with ServiceNow Development Team, I completed online ServiceNow Trainings for ServiceNow Application Developers and Technology Partners. - Learned how to create tables, form views, rules of the business, UI actions, UI policy, ACL, data importing, configuring StAs, email notifications and email templates. - Developed an application for managing orders in a Cafe, providing an interface for the waiters/servers to interact with.

Surya’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex
opencode
opencode

Education

CMR Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

CMR Institute Of Technology

20212021

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Headline

i build things | Abnormal AI

About

0→1 builder. I like ambiguous problems, and building resilient systems that don’t fall over. I’ve shipped enterprise SaaS across Python/Django + React + TypeScript with AWS/k8s. I’ve recently been deep in GenAI + security workflows: generation pipelines, evaluation harnesses, automation, and performance/reliability. I’m most interested in roles where I can own a surface area and drive it from “prototype” → “default.” (Backend/Platform/Fullstack; security/infra/dev productivity; GenAI evaluation + applied systems.)

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

codex

opencode

Work experience

SWE 2 at Abnormal AI, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, 0→1 engineer on AI Phishing Coach (AIPC), turning real attacks into localized simulations and training; scaling to 500+ enterprise customers (incl. Fortune 500s)

SWE at Abnormal AI, Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE 2 at AEREO, Dec 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hybrid, Founding engineer on the platform team; owned major parts of the cloud processing pipeline (frontend + backend) for drone imagery → maps/3D deliverables. Built processing UI for job configuration, multi-stage progress tracking, log inspection, and output review. Implemented backend workflows in Python/Django: job submission, background processing, status persistence, and access-control integration. Built feature combining 10k+ records with validation/pre-filtering to merge surveys/tiles into coherent views. Engineered dynamic queuing + upload pipeline for 100+ GB datasets; reduced upload failure rates from ~18% to ~1%. Improved photogrammetry output accuracy by ~30% via pixel alignment techniques in the frontend, reducing reruns.

SDE - 1 at AEREO, Nov 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

SDE Intern at AEREO, Aug 2021 - Nov 2021 · 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

ServiceNow Developer at Viatris, Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 · 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - During internship with ServiceNow Development Team, I completed online ServiceNow Trainings for ServiceNow Application Developers and Technology Partners. - Learned how to create tables, form views, rules of the business, UI actions, UI policy, ACL, data importing, configuring StAs, email notifications and email templates. - Developed an application for managing orders in a Cafe, providing an interface for the waiters/servers to interact with.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, CMR Institute Of Technology

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