Headline

SDE @ Infinera(Nokia) | Backend Engineering · AI/ML & GenAI | Java · Python · Kafka · gRPC · RAG Pipelines | LlamaIndex · PyTorch

About

I'm a Software Engineer at Nokia (formerly Infinera), working on backend systems and AI/ML applications. My work sits at the intersection of scalable infrastructure and GenAI — building things that actually run in production. On the backend, I use Java(Springboot), gRPC, and Kafka to build and maintain microservices that handle real workloads. On the AI/ML side, I work with Python, PyTorch, LlamaIndex, and ChromaDB to build RAG pipelines and GenAI systems, from data ingestion all the way to inference. Outside of work, I contribute to open source. One of the projects I'm involved with is Datagroom, a data quality and profiling tool.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

cursor

hugging face

langchain

mcp

ollama

vLLM

Work experience

Software Developer Engineer 1 at Nokia, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Took full ownership of an internal observability tool for a separate engineering team — handled everything from scoping requirements to shipping it to production. Cut down error trace time from hours to under 10 seconds. • Worked across a large-scale NMS product spanning multiple frontend and backend services, picking up features and firefighting production issues across the stack. • Tuned performance-critical sections of a Java-based NMS feature, which ended up driving a 5x jump in application engagement under fluctuating network conditions. • Developed and maintained service APIs and integrations using Java, gRPC, and Kafka as part of a distributed system handling real production traffic.

Software Engineer Intern at Infinera, Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Automated the API testing layer and wired it into the deployment pipeline, which knocked 25% off deployment delays and made releases noticeably more reliable. • Shipped production code into a large enterprise NMS codebase, getting hands-on with how scalable distributed systems are built and maintained in practice.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science and Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

Public links

github: https://github.com/Thanmaya-K-N

thanmayakn.hegde.workers.dev: https://www.thanmayakn.hegde.workers.dev/