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About - Vijay Makkad

Vijay Makkad
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Vijay Makkad

Full-Stack & ML Engineer
Currently · Software Engineer @ Cloudera
Building production systems at the intersection of full-stack engineering, ML, and platform reliability.
I'm a Bangalore-based Software Engineer at Cloudera and a Computer Science graduate from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, with a passion for full-stack development, machine learning, and building products that solve real-world problems. I excel at competitive programming (1700+ LeetCode rating), research internships, and shipping production-grade applications.

Work Experience

  • Cloudera

    Software Engineer

    • Building and operating large-scale data platform services across reliability and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Docker.
  • Founders Club, SRMIST

    Associate Technical Lead

    • Led a team of 3 developers to build multiple full-stack projects for the college, coordinating design reviews, sprint planning, and deployments.
  • Fuelemy

    Backend Developer Intern

    • Designed scalable REST APIs with Hono/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Drizzle ORM. Reduced API response time by 60% and deployed with Docker/Bun achieving 99.5% uptime.
  • Samsung Prism

    Project Intern

    • Developed CNN-based action recognition model using MovieNet architecture with 97% training accuracy. Co-authored research paper submitted to ICACECS 2025.
  • EasyGold Ltd.

    Web Developer Intern

    • Developed Cart and Accounts pages using React and Java Spring Boot with integrated payment workflows and responsive UI components.
  • Jindal Steel and Power

    Summer Intern

    • Built Night Vigilance Portal with React frontend and Java Spring Boot backend for real-time monitoring and surveillance reporting.

Education

SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyB.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — CGPA 9.71 (2022–2026)
Sai International Residential School12th — 97% | 10th — 96%

Technical Skills

Python

Primary language for ML pipelines, FastAPI services, and research tooling.

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TypeScript

Used across full-stack apps with strict typing and API contracts.

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C++

Competitive programming and systems-oriented coursework.

SQL

Schema design and query optimization for production APIs.

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Go

Building concurrent backend services and scalable APIs.

Rust

Exploring systems programming with memory safety guarantees and high performance.

React

Component-driven UIs with hooks, context, and real-time updates.

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React Native

Building cross-platform mobile applications.

Next.js

App Router, SSR, and MDX-powered portfolio and product sites.

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Node.js

REST APIs and WebSocket servers for concurrent chat workloads.

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Express

Middleware-heavy REST APIs with JWT auth and rate limiting.

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Tailwind CSS

Utility-first styling with theme tokens and responsive layouts.

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MongoDB

Indexed collections for chat history and user sessions.

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PostgreSQL

Relational schemas with Drizzle ORM and Supabase backends.

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TensorFlow

CNN training pipelines for image classification tasks.

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PyTorch

MovieNet-style action recognition with 97% training accuracy.

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LangChain

Multi-agent orchestration for retrieval-augmented research.

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OpenCV

Preprocessing pipelines for computer vision experiments.

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HuggingFace

Transformer models for NLP summarization workflows.

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Scikit-learn

Building predictive models for regression and classification tasks.

Pandas

Data manipulation and analysis for ML pipelines.

Docker

Containerized deployments with 99.5% uptime in production.

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GitHub

Version control, CI workflows, and open-source project hosting.

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AWS

Cloud foundations and ML deployment basics.

Supabase

Real-time Postgres with row-level security for forum apps.

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Socket.io

Bidirectional WebSockets for 100+ concurrent chat users.

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Vite

Next-generation frontend tooling for fast React builds.

Achievements & certificationsRank 1 — Techknow 2023 · AWS ML Foundations · Alteryx Designer Core · GitHub Foundations · Research paper under review (ICACECS 2025)