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Aakash Madabhushi

Software Engineering

I ship services and the tooling around them, from a 17-container distributed system to a browser extension and its companion iOS app.

Eighteen months as a software engineer at Sapaad, working on a multi-tenant SaaS platform where the data pipelines I built and the Spark jobs I tuned sat behind more than 75 customer dashboards. Coursework and personal projects since have pushed on distributed systems: a LinkedIn-style platform running as 17 coordinated containers communicating over Kafka, and a Yelp clone rebuilt around events so services fail and recover independently.

Also the unglamorous parts that decide whether anyone else can run your work. A ROS 2 and Gazebo environment that comes up with one command, identically on macOS and Linux, with the GUI tools attached. A model wrapped in an API, containerized, and redeployed on every commit. A Chrome extension and a SwiftUI app kept in sync across two platforms.

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17
containers across 5 service groups in the LinkedIn simulation
6×
faster repeat profile lookups, under 100 concurrent users
20%
dashboard query latency reduction across 75+ tenant instances
5M+
rows a day through the multi-tenant platform at Sapaad

7 projects in this area

Every link goes to code or data you can inspect yourself.

Benchmark chart comparing single-instance against multi-replica deployment at 500 concurrent threads, plotting response time beside requests served.
Software EngineeringAI EngineeringData Engineering

LinkedIn Simulation with an AI Recruiting Assistant

A LinkedIn-style hiring platform running as 17 coordinated services, plus an AI assistant that takes a recruiter from résumé to outreach and pauses for human approval before it sends anything.

17
containers across 5 service groups
6×
faster repeat profile lookups, under 100 concurrent users
  • FastAPI
  • Kafka
  • LangGraph
  • React
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Docker

SJSU DATA 236, Distributed Systems · Spring 2026

View code on GitHub
The extension dashboard in dark mode, showing the activity grid, focus session counters, and per-site breakdown panels.
Software EngineeringAI Engineering

Reader, an Attention-Management Browser Extension

A Chrome extension and companion iOS app that help you finish what you start. The AI runs on your own machine, so nothing you read ever leaves it.

0
external API calls, because the AI runs on-device
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Vite
  • Chrome MV3
  • SwiftUI
  • +2 more

Personal project · Jul 2026 to present

View code on GitHub
Software EngineeringData Engineering

Event-Driven Yelp Clone

A Yelp-style application rebuilt so services communicate through events instead of calling each other directly, letting each part fail and recover independently.

  • JavaScript
  • Kafka
  • Docker

SJSU DATA 236, Distributed Systems · Spring 2026

View code on GitHub
The physical robot arm on the lab desk beside the monitor running the simulator it is matched against.
Robot LearningSoftware Engineering

Real2Sim2Real: Mirroring a Real Workspace into Simulation

Locates the real cube and bowl with printed markers and a calibrated overhead camera, then places them at matching coordinates in a physics simulation, so policies train against the real table's layout.

  • Python
  • NVIDIA Isaac Sim
  • ROS 2
  • OpenCV
  • ArUco
  • +2 more

Personal project, built on NVIDIA's Sim-to-Real SO-101 workshop · Aug 2026 to present

View code on GitHub
ML EngineeringSoftware Engineering

Thyroid Recurrence Predictor

A cancer-recurrence model taken the whole way to production: trained, wrapped in an API, containerized, and redeployed automatically on every commit.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • +1 more

Personal project · Apr 2025

View code on GitHub
Robot LearningSoftware Engineering

ROS 2 + Gazebo, Containerized

Runs ROS 2 Jazzy, Gazebo Harmonic, RViz, and a TurtleBot3 model from one command, identically on macOS and Linux. A built-in desktop makes the GUI tools work without fighting X11.

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • ROS 2 Jazzy
  • Gazebo Harmonic
  • TurtleBot3
  • +1 more

Personal project · Mar 2026

View code on GitHub

Tools I've shipped with here

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • SwiftUI

Services & data stores

  • FastAPI
  • Kafka
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cloud Firestore

Delivery

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS EC2
  • Vite
  • Chrome MV3

Relevant experience

The parts of my roles that bear on this work. The résumé has all of it.

Graduate Research Assistant · SJSU Department of Applied Data Science

Mar 2026 to present

  • Built a resumable physical-robot evaluation pipeline for a 100-trial fixed and randomized cube-placement protocol with automatic return-to-start, stale-cache guards, placement-error measurement, and success/grasp/failure logging. Completed all 50 fixed-position rollouts at 92% success and 2.49 cm mean placement error.

Software Engineer · Sapaad

Jun 2023 to Oct 2024

  • Built production data pipelines processing 5M+ daily rows across a multi-tenant SaaS platform using Databricks and PySpark for recommendation model feature extraction.
  • Optimized 10+ Spark jobs through SQL window function tuning and caching, reducing dashboard query latency by 20% across 75+ tenant instances.

Hiring for software engineering?

I'm available from December 2026 and open to relocating. Email me and I'll reply within a day.

aakash.vardhan15@gmail.com

Hiring for something else?

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