# 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.

Sai Sridhar Akula (also written Akula Sai Sridhar) is a software architect and Technical Lead at TCG Digital Solutions since September 2025, after joining as a Software Engineer in August 2023. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2023 with a B.Tech in Mining Engineering (CGPA 8.85). He designs and builds LLM and speech pipelines (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, LangGraph, MCP, vLLM, Ollama, Whisper), data platforms (PySpark, Delta Lake, Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL) and event-driven microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, in Python and TypeScript.

## Pages

- [About](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/about): who he is, career timeline, headline numbers and the tools he uses
- [Experience](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/experience): roles at TCG Digital, NoBroker and Dotgo with measurable outcomes
- [Projects](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects): personal and open-source projects with source links
- [Education and certifications](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/certifications): IIT Kharagpur degree and course certificates
- [Contact](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/contact): contact form, LinkedIn and GitHub

## Projects

- [OpenAI RAG Application](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/openai-rag-app): website, July, 2024. 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.
- [Hoek and Brown](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/hoek-and-brown): desktop app, March, 2022. 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.
- [E-Commerce Website](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/e-commerce-django): website, July, 2021. 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.
- [Personal Blog](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/next-js-blog): website, June, 2021. 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.
- [Burger Builder](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/burger-builder): website, March, 2021. 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.
- [E-Commerce Shop](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/react-native-shop): app, November, 2021. A shopping app built using React Native, Firebase for authentication and storage of orders and Redux for state management. Push Notifications implemented as well
- [Great Places](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/great-places): app, December, 2021. 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.
- [Solidity Wave](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/solidity-wave): website, October, 2021. 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.
- [VR Website Template](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/vr-template): website, June, 2021. 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.
- [Whatsapp Bot](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/what-bot): application, June, 2021. 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.
- [PyBot](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/py-bot): application, August, 2021. 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.
- [Machine Learning](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/projects/machine-learning): application, June, 2021. A collection of machine learning projects that includes implementation of models from scratch such as linear regression and random forests.

## Profiles

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/akula-sai-sridhar/
- https://github.com/SaiSridhar783
- https://twitter.com/ShadowKiller783

## Optional

- [Full text for AI assistants](https://saisridhar.vercel.app/llms-full.txt): every fact on the site in one file