I'm looking for backend or full stack or platform engineering roles where I can build reliable, scalable systems. I'm particularly interested in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, browser automation, and performance engineering, and I enjoy solving challenging systems problems at scale.
Srikanth Cheruku
@srikanthcheruku
Full-stack & scraping engineer with close to 3 years experience in web apps, stealth browser automation, API reverse engineering, proxies, and cloud.
What I'm looking for
Full-stack and web scraping engineer with close to 3 years of experience building web applications, backend systems, and large-scale web scraping and automation infrastructure. Open-source contributor.
Experienced with React, Next.js, TanStack, FastAPI, Django, and Express, along with APIs, databases, cloud deployment, and production system maintenance. Specialized in scraping difficult websites using browser automation, stealth techniques, fingerprint management, CAPTCHA and anti-bot handling, session management, proxy rotation, and residential/mobile proxy infrastructure. I have also built browser extensions using the WXT framework
Experienced in reverse engineering private APIs, analyzing network traffic, reproducing authenticated requests, and extracting data from dynamic applications, JavaScript state, Shadow DOM, canvas-based interfaces, and embedded data layers.
Focused on scalable and cost-efficient scraping by reducing browser usage, shifting workloads to direct HTTP requests where possible, optimizing proxy and bandwidth usage, managing retries and failures, and operating distributed workers. Experienced deploying and maintaining these systems on AWS and GCP using containerized infrastructure.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Engineer
Trident Analytical Solutions
Aug 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)
Built resilient web scraping and automation systems using Playwright, Puppeteer, and HTTP clients, improving reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency. Worked with fingerprinting, proxies, TLS, session management, monitoring, and dynamic web data. Also built and deployed full-stack applications using React, Node.js, Python, Docker, AWS, and GCP.
Freelance Web Developer
Bare It All Sugaring
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 month)
Translated Figma mockups into a fully responsive React website, replacing a legacy template. Integrated Square Web Payments SDK for card checkout and improved performance with code splitting, image optimization, and simplified navigation.
Backend Developer Intern
TGH Technologies Pvt Ltd
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023 (1 month)
Contributed to a Dubai-based EdTech platform by building and maintaining Express.js course services with unit tests, error handling, and logging. Implemented paginated search/filter/sort APIs with MongoDB and documented 15+ REST endpoints in a shared Postman collection.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
2019 - 2023
Grade: CGPA 7
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (CGPA: 7) at Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management from 2019 to 2023.
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