Cloud-Stack Developer, Founding Engineer, IEEE Speaker and entrepreneur.

I’m Shri Hegde, MSCS student at Case Western Reserve University. I am also a cloud stack developer and a startup founder with a incomplete venture. I am based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Education

  1. University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Degree
    Master of Science in Computer Science
    Date

    Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science with a focus on Databases and Distributed Systems.

  2. University
    Visvesvaraya Technological University
    Degree
    Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering
    Date

    Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Experience

  1. Company
    Sync Energy AI
    Role
    Technical Advisor
    Date

    I advised the development team on the development of a new mobile application that would help the user to find the points of trees that need to be trimmed. I helped in designing the database schema and the API endpoints for the application. I also worked on the development and hosting of the backend application.

  2. Company
    Research & Ranking
    Role
    Senior Software Developer
    Date

    I collaborated extensively on FastAPI and Angular apps, optimizing over 50 SQL queries for efficiency, and led the development of an internal stock portfolio recommendation algorithm, delivering the beta in 120 days. By advocating coding best practices and building effective CI/CD pipelines, I helped standardize development processes across the organization, reducing build, test, and deployment times by 20%.

  3. Company
    Plexflo LLC
    Role
    Founding Software Engineer
    Date

    I developed Evidence, a Meter Data Management & Analytics (MDMS) software with sub-90ms latency, leveraging ITRON, Sensus Xylem, and Siemens data streams alongside AWS, Apache Flink, and a custom ML model. I also achieved an 85% F1 score for Plexflo AI, scaled a FastAPI server supporting 20,000 IoT devices, and led a team of 5 engineers, overseeing India operations and improving testing and deployment times by 30%.

  4. Company
    DataCertus
    Role
    Founder
    Date

    As the Founder, I led the development of a full-service ML apps marketplace and no-code Machine Learning/Data Science solution, featuring ML/Deep Learning-based workflows deployed on AWS with drag-and-drop interfaces. I successfully raised USD 50k in investment, participated in the CDL Montreal Incubator program in 2021, and secured the 53rd position.

  5. Company
    Sync Energy AI
    Role
    Software Engineering Intern
    Date

    I broke down a monolith into multiple microservices hosted on AWS, improving API response times by 40%, and migrated a Flask app with 200+ endpoints to Django Rest Framework, increasing application speed by 20%. Additionally, I built efficient CI/CD pipelines, reducing maintenance downtime by 80%, and used Terraform and AWS Cloud CDK to manage resources, cutting billing costs by 30%.

  6. Company
    Wpify
    Role
    Freelance Web Developer
    Date

    I developed a Content Management System for Wpify using APIs from BunnyCDN, Cloudflare, WordPress, and cPanel, leveraging the Django Web Framework to integrate these services efficiently.

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