nithin sengodan
@nithinsengodan
Senior backend engineer building distributed AI infrastructure and real-time multimodal search pipelines at scale.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 5 years of experience designing distributed systems, AI-powered backend platforms, and real-time high-throughput data pipelines. I focus on scalable microservices, event-driven architecture, and production-grade AI workflows.
I’ve built multimodal semantic search systems and vector search architectures using Qdrant, including automated embedding pipelines that support natural language queries across images and videos. I’ve also integrated multiple LLMs for dynamic workflow execution, orchestration, and decision-making across text, image, video, and audio generation.
On the infrastructure side, I’ve designed serverless inference orchestration with AWS Lambda and SQS, and implemented streaming inference responses using FastAPI for real-time progress updates and progressive output delivery. I also deliver reliable deployments in air-gapped environments, using distributed processing frameworks and container orchestration tooling.
I’m known for mentoring engineers, conducting technical hiring interviews, and maintaining high engineering standards. Whether extracting logic from monoliths into independent microservices or optimizing pipelines for throughput and latency, I aim to ship systems that are maintainable, scalable, and safe.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Backend Engineer
ShopOS
Oct 2025 - Present (8 months)
Led a structured QA pipeline for AI agentic workflows, adding multi-stage validation and controlled production releases. Extracted monolithic workflow logic into microservices and deployed serverless multimodal inference on AWS Lambda, including a Qdrant-backed semantic search using 1024-dimensional vectors and streaming progress updates.
Senior Backend Developer
Gnani Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
May 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 5 months)
Built a real-time AI Agent Assist platform integrating multiple data streams and LLM-driven insights for live customer support. Developed distributed transcription and speech-to-speech services with WebSocket and gRPC, optimized Redis pipelines to reduce network latency by 25%, and implemented an air-gapped ASR pipeline processing 45–90 hours of audio per hour of compute while mentoring 5–10 engin
Python Developer
Gnani Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
May 2022 - May 2024 (2 years)
Led end-to-end development of a keyword detection pipeline for air-gapped systems using a scalable microservices-based framework. Improved internal TTS inference performance by 20% via ONNX conversion and runtime optimization, built a multilingual video translation pipeline for NPTEL across 11 languages, and developed secure biometric dashboard backends with encryption and RBAC.
Junior Software Engineer
Yavar Tech Works India Pvt. Ltd.
Mar 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 2 months)
Designed real-time water consumption analytics systems for the SIPCOT Smart Initiative, building time-series pipelines and monitoring dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana. Implemented an OCR-based medical report digitization platform achieving over 90% accuracy and processing reports in under 6 seconds on a single-core machine.
Data Mining Intern
HackerEarth Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019 (3 months)
Conducted data scraping and cleaning for marketing datasets, improving lead quality and automating validation pipelines to streamline downstream workflows.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Coursera - Stanford University
Machine Learning
2020 -
Completed advanced machine learning coursework with Stanford University via Coursera, covering topics such as anti-spam filtering, image recognition, clustering, and recommendation systems.
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