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Charan Raj Kandula

Jersey City, NJ +1 (551) 256-0939 kandulacharanraj@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub

Professional Profile

AI Engineer specializing in LLM orchestration, multimodal AI, and cloud-scale deployment. Experienced in building production AI systems including agentic workflows, and real-time AI platforms on Google Cloud and AWS. Proven track record shipping end-to-end AI products used by 10K+ users and optimizing performance, reliability, and scalability of AI pipelines.

Technical Arsenal

LanguagesPython • TypeScript • JavaScript • Java • SQL
FrontendReact • Next.js • Angular • Three.js • WebGL • Tailwind CSS
Backend & DBNode.js • Express • REST APIs • GraphQL • WebSockets • Microservices
Cloud & DevOpsGCP • AWS • Docker • Kubernetes • CI/CD
AI & Machine LearningLLM Integration • Prompt Engineering • Multimodal AI • RAG • AI Evaluation • AI Pipelines • Agentic Workflows

Professional Experience

AI Engineer (Remote)

Sep 2025 – Present
Handshake AIRemote
  • Evaluated AI-generated solutions using rubrics (feasibility, complexity, novelty, impact) to improve LLM benchmark performance.
  • Built distributed workflows for AI media storage, delivery, and real-time status tracking.
  • Performed large-scale dataset labeling and failure analysis to enhance object recognition and reasoning performance.

Software Engineer Intern (UI/3D)

May 2024 – Oct 2024
Nubes OpusProsper, TX
  • Built advanced 3D UI components (joysticks, HUD overlays, loaders) using React, Three.js, and WebGL.
  • Optimized 3D rendering pipelines using mesh compression and LOD strategies, achieving sustained 60 FPS on mobile devices.
  • Researched Gaussian Splatting and NeRF techniques for real-time high-fidelity rendering and future pipeline upgrades.

Software Engineer Intern (Full-Stack)

Sep 2023 – Mar 2024
Marlabs LLCPiscataway, NJ
  • Architected a scalable product lifecycle platform using Angular/React frontends and Node.js microservices.
  • Built a high-concurrency data mapping engine for industrial sensor streams, reducing manual monitoring effort by ~40%.
  • Deployed containerized services on AWS using Docker and auto-scaling, improving deployment reliability and reducing downtime by ~30%.

Data Analyst

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022
Adecco (Amazon)Hyderabad, India
  • Automated SQL reporting for high-volume HR datasets to improve audit speed and accuracy.

Software Developer

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Synactive India Pvt. Ltd.Hyderabad, India
  • Shipped Android features (document viewer, night mode, voice assistant) used by 10K+ users.
  • Integrated REST APIs using Retrofit and improved defensive coding practices, reducing crash rates by ~25%.

Key Projects

ComicCraft

  • Architected an end-to-end AI media generation pipeline using LLMs, image generation, and async job processing.
  • Designed scalable APIs and cloud workflows on Google Cloud Run for automated content generation and job tracking.
  • Built distributed processing pipelines for AI-generated media storage, delivery, and real-time status updates.

TheSwarm

  • Designed and deployed a real-time multi-agent system enabling AI agents and humans to collaborate on tasks and research.
  • Implemented WebSocket-based real-time communication and multi-tenant architecture on Google Cloud Run.
  • Built LLM-powered workflows for task planning, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem solving.

Education

2025 – Present
M.S. in Computer ScienceBrooklyn, NY

2022 – 2023
M.S. in Computer ScienceHoboken, NJ