Sarvesh
Madullapalli
Software Engineer building full-stack, mobile, and ML-driven products, from React Native apps to RAG systems and computer-vision pipelines. Most at home shipping fast at startups and building robots.
Selected Work
Software Engineering Fellow
Rebuilt the donation and outreach site for a 6.5k-member nonprofit and shipped a financial-literacy simulation with Mission City Federal Credit Union, with indexed lookups returning history in under 20ms.
Software & Hardware Engineering Intern
Built a distributed network of ESP32-S3 sensor nodes streaming structural-vibration data over MQTT to a React.js dashboard; earned 2nd place at the NextFlex-sponsored FlexFactor competition.
Senior Developer
Built React Native screens for an investor-backed AI fitness startup, integrating MediaPipe pose-detection models with real-time form feedback; led a 3-person team on a two-sided sponsor marketplace.
Freelance Software Engineer · Top 7%
Shipped a production RAG system for NYT-bestselling author Shane Parrish over 800+ private documents, and an automated video-generation pipeline for 12M-subscriber creator Orkun Isitmak on Google Cloud TPUs.
Full-Stack AI Engineer (Contract)
Built a Ukrainian-to-English translation app using OpenAI Whisper for transcription and GPT-3.5 for translation, streamlining the testimonial workflow for a nonprofit supporting 4.4k+ displaced families.
Backend Developer
Shipped the org's first patient-matching GUI with multi-criteria filtering and cut diagnostic matching latency from 8.0s to 2.2s (3.6x) by denormalizing and caching Airtable lookups for rare-disease research.
Featured Projects
Sports Analytics Research
Fine-tuned TrackNetV3 to localize shuttles at 30 FPS through motion blur, fused with an unscented Kalman filter for 3D trajectory reconstruction; co-authoring a research paper with a UCSC PhD mentor.
Robotics Control Systems
Implemented mecanum-drive inverse kinematics and PIDF flywheel control from scratch in Java, plus 30 FPS OpenCV AprilTag detection for autonomous alignment, contributing to a 1st-place FTC Inspire award.
Funding Your Futures
Solo-built financial-literacy simulation deployed at gym-scale events for 200+ students, syncing student and admin state over Server-Sent Events with Amazon Bedrock reports. $2.5k funded.
ExpressMate
AI calculus tutor recognized by Adobe at Los Altos Hacks VIII, orchestrating Wolfram Alpha, Claude, and Manim to generate narrated video walkthroughs on demand.
ScreenExtend
Founding engineer on a live startup that turns any spare phone, tablet, or laptop into a wireless secondary display, shipped and available at screenextend.app.
AI-Powered DECA Platform
Adaptive DECA training platform predicting topic weaknesses at 87% accuracy; users scored 10 points higher and secured 40% of CA finance ICDC spots.
Let's Connect
Always interested in software engineering internships, research collaborations, and conversations about systems, ML, and building things that ship.
