daily reports automated
Backend Engineering / Data Systems / Automation
Akilan Manikandan
Backend-focused software engineer with internship experience building REST APIs, ETL workflows, and automation systems for reporting, workflow operations, and data-driven products.
Current focus
- Backend services and platform-oriented APIs
- Scalable automation and orchestration workflows
- Data pipelines with strong reliability and observability
pipeline success rate achieved
internship experiences across backend, AI, and automation
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022-2026
CGPA: 8.35 / 10.0Python, Java, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL
Additional exposure across Spring Boot, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, and ETL systems.
Backend, Data Platform, and Automation Roles
Seeking software engineering roles in backend, data platforms, automation, and infrastructure-oriented product teams.
Featured Work
Automation Platform for Branch-Level Reporting
Clarivium Technologies / Aug 2025 - Mar 2026
Built orchestration and ETL workflows for recurring branch-level reporting.
Worked on a configuration-driven automation platform that processed recurring reporting workloads across branches, with validation checkpoints, retry paths, and clearer execution visibility for operations teams.
daily reports automated across branch workflows
pipelines supported with dependency sequencing and validation checkpoints
pipeline success rate maintained through retry handling and monitoring
Experience
Internships
Automation Platform and Data Pipeline Engineering
Worked on automation and data workflows for recurring branch-level reporting, including orchestration logic, ETL pipelines, validation checkpoints, and retry paths.
- Engineered a multi-tenant, configuration-driven automation platform that processed 50+ daily reports across 20+ branches, reducing manual reporting effort by 80%.
- Designed metadata-driven orchestration for 100+ pipelines with retry handling, dependency sequencing, and validation checkpoints, improving failure recovery time by 50% and maintaining a 95%+ success rate.
- Implemented end-to-end ETL pipelines across Python, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, and Power BI, enabling near real-time reporting and improving data availability turnaround by 70%.
Backend API and Platform Engineering
Worked on backend platform development for enterprise workflow systems, with a focus on API design, database efficiency, and application reliability.
- Built and extended RESTful backend services using Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL to support scalable workflow operations and business-critical product features.
- Improved responsiveness and system stability by debugging backend and database bottlenecks, strengthening data consistency and reducing production defects.
- Used development tooling to speed up debugging, boilerplate generation, and backend implementation while manually reviewing logic before integration.
Applied Machine Learning Systems
Contributed to applied machine learning workflows for speech-based emotion analysis, with emphasis on feature engineering, model quality, and rapid experimentation.
- Developed components for an AI-driven speech emotion recognition pipeline using LSTM models and MFCC-based feature extraction for multi-class audio classification.
- Reached 97% validation accuracy during controlled experiments after preprocessing, feature engineering, and model tuning across the training workflow.
- Improved experiment turnaround through rapid prototyping, preprocessing iterations, and model evaluation within a 6-member engineering team.
Enterprise Backend Application Development
Supported backend feature development for an enterprise HRMS application, working on role-based workflows, team delivery, and release quality in an Agile environment.
- Built backend functionality for a multi-role HRMS platform serving Admin, HR, Employee, and Client workflows, contributing to an estimated 30% improvement in operational efficiency.
- Collaborated in a 4-member Agile team to deliver sprint-based features and maintain stable integration across shared application modules.
- Improved deployment efficiency by 20% through stronger version control practices and reduced merge conflicts during release cycles.
Projects
Systems Built Around APIs, Automation, and Applied ML
01
GitHub repoSecure File Sharing Platform with Access Control
Designed a secure file-sharing system with encryption, access control, anomaly monitoring, and audit-friendly file operations.
Role
Designed the backend-oriented security flow and implemented service boundaries for encrypted file operations, sharing policy checks, and audit-friendly access.
Architecture
Files move through a controlled pipeline covering upload, encryption, key exchange, policy validation, access control, audit logging, and monitored retrieval. Separate services manage storage security, sharing workflows, and anomaly detection.
Problem Scope
It addresses insecure document sharing in distributed environments by enforcing strong access boundaries, protecting sensitive data, and improving traceability for every file-level operation.
Scalability
The design separates file operations, access validation, and anomaly monitoring so the authorization model remains understandable as policies and usage grow.
02
GitHub repoCityPulse Event Recommendation API and Chatbot
Built an event discovery system combining ingestion pipelines, backend APIs, normalized storage, and context-aware recommendation logic.
Role
Built the backend API layer and recommendation flow connecting event ingestion, normalized storage, contextual query handling, and frontend consumption.
Architecture
Event data is collected through ingestion pipelines, normalized, stored in MongoDB, and exposed through FastAPI endpoints. A recommendation layer then maps user intent to relevant events using contextual query handling.
Problem Scope
It reduces the friction of event discovery by replacing fragmented listings with a single recommendation flow that can answer user queries and return more relevant options quickly.
Scalability
The system separates ingestion, storage, API delivery, and recommendation logic to avoid coupling chatbot behavior directly to raw event data.
03
GitHub repoSpeech Emotion Classification Pipeline
Developed a speech emotion classification workflow using sequential models, MFCC-based features, and audio preprocessing for multi-class inference.
Role
Developed the audio preprocessing and model-training workflow, including MFCC feature extraction, LSTM experimentation, and multi-class evaluation.
Architecture
The pipeline preprocesses audio, extracts MFCC features, and feeds the sequential representation into an LSTM model trained to classify emotional states from speech samples.
Problem Scope
It enables systems to interpret emotional cues in speech, which is useful for voice interfaces, assistive technologies, and conversational systems that require more context than transcription alone.
Scalability
Preprocessing, feature extraction, training, and inference are kept modular so experiments can be repeated, evaluated, and improved independently.
Credentials
Claude Code in Action
Anthropic
AI Fluency for Students
Anthropic
Software Engineer Internship
Clarivium Technologies
Advanced NLP with Python, spaCy, and Scikit-learn
Skillsoft
Python for Data Science
NPTEL
Java Full-Stack Development
Simbiotik Technologies
Software Development
Prodigy InfoTech
Database Management Systems
Udemy
Core Tech Stack
Backend Engineering
FastAPI, Django REST Framework, Spring Boot, Node.js, NestJS, REST API design, service-oriented architecture
Data Platforms & Cloud
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL, ETL/ELT workflows, AWS EC2/S3/Lambda/SQS, Docker, Linux
Automation & Applied ML
n8n, Playwright, TagUI, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, model experimentation and workflow automation
Contact
Open to Backend, Data Platform, and Automation Engineering Roles
I am looking for roles where I can work on reliable APIs, data workflows, workflow automation, and backend systems with clear operational ownership.