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title: "Surya Nelakanti - SWE 2 in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Surya Nelakanti, i build things | Abnormal AI based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, codex, and opencode."
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# Surya Nelakanti on Tal

## 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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