RAMA SATYANARAYANA MURTHY REDDY VELAGALA
Call: 352-***-**** Email: ************@*****.*** [GitHub] [LinkedIn] Gainesville, FL (Willing to relocate) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Full Stack Developer University of Florida Jan 2024 - Present
• Designed a rapid site plan review process integrated with zoning and land development codes, reducing manual coordination and approval times.
• Integrated RESTful APIs into a React framework using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL, ensuring real-time data integrity and regulatory compliance.
• Revamped the website UI with React, Redux, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, improving user satisfaction and interface responsiveness by 40%.
• Implemented Apache Kafka to scale and streamline the email notification system, boosting throughput by 20% and improving message delivery reliability.
Research Assistant SRM Institute of Science and Technology Aug 2022 - July 2023
• Tasked with a real-time engineering software development project, focusing on developing hand tracking and gesture recognition technologies to meet high-quality communication needs of approx. 44 million Americans with hearing loss.
• Integrated and trained ML pipelines using Python, scikit-learn, Media Pipe and deployed the best-performing Random Forest model to AWS EC2 for real-time stream processing.
• Utilized Flask to rapidly prototype internal tools for visualizing and testing ML outputs during model tuning and debugging.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins, optimized Docker containerization strategies, achieving a 90% reduction in deployment-related downtimes.
• Delivered a robust GUI using OpenCV with high-quality output, achieving 98% accuracy on 10k+ ASL samples and meeting performance requirements of 20–30 FPS in near-real-time. Software Developer Intern Smart Knower Jan 2022 – Mar 2022
• Used Node.js and Express.js for backend service development alongside MySQL and MongoDB for hybrid data storage solutions.
• Created mock APIs using Django and .NET to evaluate cross-framework performance in service layers.
• Collaborated with team using Git and Bitbucket for version control, and managed project tickets through JIRA.
• Designed and tested REST APIs with Postman and developed UI concepts in Figma to align with user workflows. EDUCATION
University Of Florida (GPA: 3.77 / 4.00) Aug 2023 - May 2025 M.S. in Computer and Information Science Gainesville, FL TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Java, Python, C++, C, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Shell (Linux) Frontend: React.js, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Redux, Figma Backend & Frameworks: Node.js, Express.js, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, .NET, socket.io Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, SQLite, NoSQL DevOps & Cloud: AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, SNS, ECS Fargate), GCP, Azure, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD Tools: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, JIRA, Cypress, Postman, PyCharm, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn RESEARCH
Gesture Recognition using Machine Learning (Published in AIP Conference Proceedings - 2023) - [Link]
• Research work presented at 2023 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and IOT (ICICIOT).
• Achieved 98% Accuracy using High-Performance Computing methods on a real-time dataset. PROJECTS
Sensitive Information Redactor Python, SpaCy, FastAPI, GitHub Actions, Pytest, SQLite - [Project Link]
• Built a tool to redact sensitive data from 25,000+ documents using SpaCy and FastAPI.
• Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions and tested NLP modules using Pytest for reliable performance. ACHIEVEMENTS
• Received Academic Achievement Award at the University of Florida for 3 consecutive semesters.
• Ranked 92nd in SRMJEEE 2019 out of 170,000+ candidates, awarded a $30,000 full-tuition scholarship for 4 years.