Full-Stack Engineer · AI Builder · DevOps Engineer

Anirudh Makuluri

I build the unglamorous middle layer between AI ideas and apps people actually ship — deployment automation, repo intelligence, and real-time systems.

Live · Tempe, AZ
33.4°N 111.9°W/--:--:-- MST
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01Currently
  • 01building SmartDeploy — a deploy-before-you-deploy platform
  • 02building Hoplio — a real-time communication platform
  • 03writing the what-if-million-users systems series
02Selected Work

SmartDeploylive

Preview-driven DevOps automation platform that analyzes your GitHub repo, shows the deployment path before release, and deploys static and server apps to AWS with automated builds, DNS, secrets, monitoring, health checks, and rollback.

Next.jsTypeScriptAWS ECSAWS FargateS3CloudFront+7
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SD-Artifacts

Repository analysis engine for SmartDeploy that inspects a GitHub project, infers its app type and deployment requirements, and returns structured deployment metadata used to route apps to AWS services.

LangGraphFastAPIAmazon BedrockSupabaseGitHub APIAWS ECS+4
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what-if-million-users

Scale-focused backend systems series built around one question: what does this look like when a million users show up?

GoGinRedisDynamoDBKafkaPrometheus+2
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Accio — PDF RAG Knowledge System

End-to-end PDF knowledge extraction and Q&A system that ingests documents, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph with local vector embeddings, and powers a Streamlit chat UI with grounded citations and PDF highlights.

RAGNeo4jFastAPIStreamlitsentence-transformersDocker+1
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GraphStream DPS — Streaming Taxi Graph Analytics

Kubernetes-based streaming graph analytics pipeline that loads NYC taxi trips into Neo4j, runs Graph Data Science algorithms, and optionally ingests real-time trip events via Kafka, ZooKeeper, and Kafka Connect.

KubernetesKafkaNeo4jPythonDockerHelm+1
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Hopliolive

Secure real-time communication platform with one-to-one and group messaging, voice/video calls, offline-first sync, end-to-end encryption, and an AI assistant with semantic retrieval across mobile and web.

Next.jsReactReact NativeNode.jsSocket.IOWebRTC+4
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TravelMatelive

Hackathon-winning AI travel planner that turns preferences, trip constraints, and destination context into practical itineraries through a polished Next.js frontend and AI-powered planning system.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSFastAPIGoogle GeminiAuth0+1
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03Experience

Jun 2022 — Aug 2023

Remote · India

Software Engineer · Shardings

Built and scaled production collaboration features across web, mobile, backend, and cloud infrastructure for a 12K+ user platform.

  • Co-led platform scaling from VM-based deployments to GKE, improving reliability for web, backend, and real-time media services
  • Owned Node.js APIs and WebSocket systems powering meetings, messaging, session sync, payments, and live collaboration workflows
  • Shipped AI meeting summaries, CDN performance improvements, and mobile/web release workflows that improved product reliability and user experience
ReactReact NativeNode.jsFirebaseGCPGKEWebRTCSocket.IO

Jul 2021 — Dec 2021

Remote · India

Software Engineer · Intern · Shardings

First production codebase. Picked features, shipped them, and watched real users use them.

  • Built a Google Calendar Workspace add-on used inside the product
  • Integrated payments and improved core UI flows that made it into the next release
JavaScriptNode.jsGoogle Workspace APIsFirebase
04Kind Words
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Devesh Mittal

Founder & CEO @ Shardings

Anirudh was a core member of the Shardings Meet team and consistently took ownership across multiple areas, from engineering the video player to building the Android and iOS applications. He is a versatile engineer with strong technical skills and the ability to work effectively across platforms. I would highly recommend Anirudh for any software engineering role.

Managed Anirudh directly at Shardings
05Education

Aug 2024 — May 2026

Tempe, AZ

M.S. Computer Science · Arizona State University

Graduate work focused on AI/ML, distributed systems, and turning research-shaped ideas into things that ship.

Applied AICloud SystemsGraph MLProduct Building

2018 — 2022

Hyderabad, India

B.Tech. Electronics & Instrumentation · BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

Engineering fundamentals with a long detour through software — most of college was spent building side projects and learning the web stack.

Signals & SystemsFPGA DevelopmentEmbeddedSelf-taught Full-Stack
06Stack

Frontend

React.js · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · Tailwind CSS · Zustand · TanStack Query · Framer Motion

Mobile

React Native · Expo · CodePush · Firebase Cloud Messaging · Fastlane

Backend

Node.js · .Net · C# · Java · Socket.IO · WebRTC · FastAPI

Database & Cloud

Supabase · Firebase · Neo4j · MSSQL · PostgreSQL · AWS (EC2, ECS, EBS) · Google Cloud Platform · Kubernetes · Helm · Docker

AI & Machine Learning

Gen AI · Langchain · CrewAI · Ollama/Mistral · sentence-transformers · Tensorflow · PyTorch Geometric · Scikit-Learn · XGBoost · Graph Data Science

07Certifications
08Contact

Have an idea worth building?

I'm open to roles, collaborations, and the occasional weird side project. The fastest way to reach me is anirudh.makuluri@gmail.com.