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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
50+

daily reports automated

95%+

pipeline success rate achieved

4

internship experiences across backend, AI, and automation

Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022-2026

CGPA: 8.35 / 10.0
Core Stack

Python, Java, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL

Additional exposure across Spring Boot, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, and ETL systems.

Career Interest

Backend, Data Platform, and Automation Roles

Seeking software engineering roles in backend, data platforms, automation, and infrastructure-oriented product teams.

Internships

Aug 2025 - Mar 2026

Clarivium Technologies

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%.
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025

CleandeskAI

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.
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024

Zidio Development

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.
May 2024 - Jun 2024

Simbiotik Technologies

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.

Systems Built Around APIs, Automation, and Applied ML

Secure File Sharing Platform with Access Control

Designed a secure file-sharing system with encryption, access control, anomaly monitoring, and audit-friendly file operations.

Spring Boot Flask AES-256-GCM Isolation Forest
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.

CityPulse Event Recommendation API and Chatbot

Built an event discovery system combining ingestion pipelines, backend APIs, normalized storage, and context-aware recommendation logic.

FastAPI MongoDB LangChain React
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.

Speech Emotion Classification Pipeline

Developed a speech emotion classification workflow using sequential models, MFCC-based features, and audio preprocessing for multi-class inference.

TensorFlow Keras Librosa LSTM
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

Mar 2026

AI Fluency for Students

Anthropic

Mar 2026

Software Engineer Internship

Clarivium Technologies

Apr 2026

Advanced NLP with Python, spaCy, and Scikit-learn

Skillsoft

Apr 2025

Python for Data Science

NPTEL

Apr 2025

Java Full-Stack Development

Simbiotik Technologies

Jun 2024

Software Development

Prodigy InfoTech

May 2024

Database Management Systems

Udemy

Apr 2024

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

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.