# Sai Sridhar Akula > Sai Sridhar Akula is a software architect and Technical Lead at TCG Digital and an IIT Kharagpur graduate. He designs and builds real-time AI pipelines, event-driven microservices and data platforms, including an AI football commentary translator streamed live to 5M+ viewers. Last updated: 2026-11-05. Canonical site: https://saisridhar.vercel.app ## Summary - Name: Sai Sridhar Akula (also Akula Sai Sridhar) - Role: Technical Lead at TCG Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. since September 2025; Software Engineer there from August 2023 to August 2025 - Education: B.Tech in Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 2023, CGPA 8.85 - Core stack: Software architecture, Large language models (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, vLLM, Ollama), LangGraph, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Speech-to-text (Whisper), PySpark, Delta Lake, Jupyter, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, NGINX, FFmpeg, Jenkins, Git, Bun, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Next.js, React, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Docker, Event-driven architecture, Real-time streaming (HLS, SRT) - Highlights: architected an AI football commentary translator streamed to 5M+ viewers over 27 channels; real-time Chinese-to-English audiovisual translation feeding an enterprise knowledge graph; 14+ ETL workflows cutting report generation from 3 hours to 10 minutes; real-time aviation system at 700+ transactions per second; 40% cost cut from refactoring legacy systems - Recognition: Spot Award and Annual Excellence Award at TCG Digital - Profiles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akula-sai-sridhar/, https://github.com/SaiSridhar783, https://twitter.com/ShadowKiller783 - Contact: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/contact ## Work experience ### Technical Lead, TCG Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Sep 01, 2025 - Present. https://www.tcgdigital.com/ - Architected a real-time AI football commentary translator using self-hosted Whisper, LLM calls, NGINX, and FFmpeg to translate live audio into multiple languages, streaming to 5M+ viewers over 27 broadcasting channels via HLS and SRT protocols. - Directed end-to-end refactoring of legacy petrochemical systems with Python, Node.js services and Elasticsearch, resulting in a 40% cost reduction and a substantial drop in support tickets through improved reliability and efficiency. - Led AI driven enterprise data intelligence initiatives, integrating SAP with a 40+ year design repository, streamlining data discovery, reducing manual effort, and enabling data-driven business decisions via AI insights. - Designed and automated 14+ ETL workflows for financial reporting, reconciliation, and multi-period aggregation (daily, monthly, and yearly), reducing report generation time from 3 hours to 10 minutes. - Engineered a real-time Chinese-to-English audiovisual translation pipeline, processing live video and audio streams, and designed domain-specific ontologies to extract structured information and populate an enterprise knowledge graph for semantic search and AI-driven intelligence. ### Software Engineer, TCG Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Aug 01, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025. https://www.tcgdigital.com/ - Delivered a real-time aviation system in Python with a microservice architecture, achieving 700+ TPS, leveraging Kafka event streaming, Redis caching, and Kubernetes orchestration while maintaining data integrity via PostgreSQL. - Spearheaded automation of statistical reports using Python, Docker, MariaDB, S3 that generated charts and distributed them to stakeholders via email, cutting manual effort by 16+ hours per week, ensuring timely data-driven decision making. - Automated bidirectional synchronization between Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Jira using webhooks, eliminating manual updates and ensuring data consistency across project and effort records. - Mentored 2 developers and 4 interns to deliver different full-stack solutions with FastAPI services and Next.js/React UI to streamline data management, increasing efficiency across 4 departments by 60%. ### SDE Intern, NoBroker Technologies Pvt. Ltd. May 09, 2022 - July 08, 2022. https://www.nobroker.in/ - Built a dynamic Tree Visualizer using React.js and Redux covering a comprehensive catalog of 20+ services, improving understanding and decision-making. - Devised node management capabilities for concurrent users using Java Spring Boot, ensuring seamless data updates, reducing conflicts by 80%. - Consolidated network hierarchies, eliminating 95% of data inconsistencies, while streamlining data export processes. - Boosted data handling efficiency by 60% through bulk updates via CSV file uploads and downloads slashing manual work. ### UI Development Intern, Dotgo Pvt. Ltd. May 03, 2021 - June 30, 2021. https://dotgo.com/ - Enhanced the user onboarding experience by adding filters for country selection and search functionalities for carriers. - Implemented advanced filtering and nested search features, allowing users to efficiently navigate through the data. - Improved search functionality with alphabetical sorting that persists through filters, enabling quicker user navigation. ## Projects ### OpenAI RAG Application website, July, 2024. Built with docker, fastapi, python, nextjs, html5, css3. A highly configurable fullstack app to quickly build a RAG based chat UI that uses openai APIs and a vector database for storing embeddings and allows to stream the LLM response real time. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/openai-rag-app - Source: https://github.com/Soumadip-Saha/openai-RAG-Application ### Hoek and Brown desktop app, March, 2022. Built with nextjs, html5, css3, electron. Cross Platform app built using Nextron that allows to compute Hoek and Brown parameters for rock mass. The program has been compiled for linux and windows operating systems. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/hoek-and-brown - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/ARE_Project ### E-Commerce Website website, July, 2021. Built with python, django, react, bootstrap. A template E commerce website design including a shopping cart, checkout and payment gateway, with a user authentication and registration as well as product reviews. Utilizing Django framework for backend and React for frontend. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/e-commerce-django - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/react-django-ecommerce - Live: https://saisridhar783.pythonanywhere.com/#/ ### Personal Blog website, June, 2021. Built with nextjs, mongodb, css3. A simple and functional blog built using NextJS framework and MongoDB for storage of comments with a featured section and provision to send a message. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/next-js-blog - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/NextJS-blog - Live: https://next-js-blog-lac.vercel.app/ ### Burger Builder website, March, 2021. Built with react, firebase, css3, html5. A burger builder app built using React and Firebase for authentication and storage of orders that are segregated by user. Responsive design with a drawer for mobile. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/burger-builder - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/burger-builder - Live: https://react-my-burger-8cf74.web.app/ ### E-Commerce Shop app, November, 2021. Built with reactnative, firebase, redux, typescript. A shopping app built using React Native, Firebase for authentication and storage of orders and Redux for state management. Push Notifications implemented as well - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/react-native-shop - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/React-Native/tree/Shop ### Great Places app, December, 2021. Built with reactnative, typescript. A mobile app that uses native device features such as Camera, Geolocation, and MapView to record a list of places by the user. Data is locally stored for each user. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/great-places - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/React-Native/tree/Great-Places ### Solidity Wave website, October, 2021. Built with solidity, react. A web app that uses React for the frontend and implements a Solidity contract. The contract in deployed on the Rinkeby testnet. Contract can be interacted with by 'Waving' at me through the website. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/solidity-wave - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/SolidityWave - Live: https://solidity-wave--saisridhar783.repl.co/ ### VR Website Template website, June, 2021. Built with html5, css3, bootstrap. A template for a VR website built using HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap. The website is responsive and can be viewed on mobile and desktop. No Dynamic content. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/vr-template - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/Web-Development/tree/main/VR%20Website - Live: https://saisridhar783.github.io/Web-Development/VR%20Website/main-vr.html ### Whatsapp Bot application, June, 2021. Built with nodejs, typescript. A simple whatsapp bot built upon the Baileys library that makes a socket connection. The bot can send messages, media, and stickers to the user based on certain commands. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/what-bot - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/WATS-bail ### PyBot application, August, 2021. Built with python, django, react. A contextual chatbot made using PyTorch and the NLTK Library for Python. The underlying model was converted into an API using Django with a frontend in ReactJS by me. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/py-bot - Source: https://github.com/IAmOZRules/PyBot/tree/Django ### Machine Learning application, June, 2021. Built with python, sklearn, numpy. A collection of machine learning projects that includes implementation of models from scratch such as linear regression and random forests. - Page: https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/machine-learning - Source: https://github.com/SaiSridhar783/Machine-Learning ## Education - Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2023 - Senior Secondary School (AISSCE), PCMC, Royale Concorde International School, Kalyan Nagar, 2019 - Junior Secondary School (CBSE), Class 10, Presidency School Bangalore East, Kasturi Nagar, 2017 ## Certifications - React - The Complete Guide (incl Hooks, React Router, Redux) (Specialization, Academind): https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-82e2377f-4e84-4479-9de3-0023e8b9860d/ - Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools: Bootstrap 4 (Course, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): https://coursera.org/share/7750910366a542dc9210890830b44a53 - Python for Everybody (Specialization, University of Michigan): https://coursera.org/share/08aa345fb5eff485c59691d8c1c93bb8 - Google IT Automation with Python (Specialization, Google): https://coursera.org/share/6f19360d23caf63cd2391efc016d129f - Google IT Support (Specialization, Google): https://coursera.org/share/9141ab8e51a105a7a018631d96370192 - Excel Skills for Business (Specialization, Macquarie University): https://coursera.org/share/cfe1c40dc00e6293e491cdada8e80b38 - SQL for Data Science (Course, University of California, Davis): https://coursera.org/share/e3499605f8d2c24eb9dfa4500ac6b2a2 - Build Your Own Dynamic Web Application (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/GQIBYARXFM - Responsive Web Design using Flexbox (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/XFNTPCWOXZ - Build Your Own Responsive Website (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/RXBCPCFTDV - Build Your Own Static Website (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/OPOEHNMXYA - Python & OOP Concepts (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/YZCGGKMELK - Elementary Data Structures and Algorithms (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/VQLHEBCVUC - Algorithms on Graphs (Course, University of California San Diego): https://coursera.org/share/115a9ae50791181392cae8a3728ee4f3 - Machine Learning (Specialization, University of Washington): https://coursera.org/share/f04a389e204f41f3fbbfebcf086df231 - Introduction to Data Science in Python (Course, University of Michigan): https://coursera.org/share/477e8d21bdab7fd2b382f33047539c9c - C Programming Language (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/KGRGOTOWCM - C++ and Foundations of STL (Course, iB HUBS): https://10xiitian.ccbp.in/certificate/WEDZDRYIUY