◆ gokul / raam
// work experience

Building APIs
at scale.

Software Engineer

Saama Technologies · Coimbatore

Dec 2023 → present
  • →Owned the end-to-end design and development of core modules, maintaining 99.9% uptime and stability for hundreds of users.
  • →Engineered a global Redis caching utility for high-frequency app configurations — 6× faster server operations, reduced DB load.
  • →Optimized complex SQL queries — 60× reduction in execution latency for frequently accessed APIs.
  • →Architected normalized PostgreSQL databases used by multiple services, eliminating data redundancy and ensuring 100% consistency.
  • →Refactored legacy components using SOLID principles, enabling reliability and new feature extension with zero regression issues.
  • →Identified and remediated critical security vulnerabilities — SQL Injection, IDOR, weak cryptography — securing the production env.
  • →Lead peer code reviews and PR evaluations to enforce code quality and standards.
PythonPostgreSQLRedisCelerySOLIDSecurity

Software Engineering Intern

Saama Technologies · Coimbatore

Apr 2022 → Dec 2023
  • →Designed and developed flexible RESTful APIs with Flask used by different client applications.
  • →Used Pydantic to define and validate JSONs, importing structured data into PostgreSQL from unstructured CSV files.
  • →Boosted data pre-processing and validation performance by 12× using threading and lru_cache.
  • →Regularly wrote unit and integration tests using Pytest.
  • →Developed global utilities, reducing redundant code and bugs, improving development efficiency for the entire engineering team.
PythonFlaskPydanticPostgreSQLPytestSOLID
// freelance · pre-saama

Job Portal

Project Coordinator · Backend Developer

2021 → 2022
  • →Led a team of 7 building a job portal application end-to-end.
  • →Designed the database normalised to 3NF, consistent, no duplication.
  • →Planned and built REST APIs in Django, wired up an HTML/CSS/JS frontend.
DjangoRESTPostgreSQLTeam Lead

Clayton Chettinad — Restaurant Website

Frontend Developer

2021 → 2022
  • →Built a React web app for an Australian Chettinad restaurant.
  • →Shipped as a PWA — installable, offline-capable.
  • →Reusable components, code base structured for easy extension.
ReactPWAService Workers
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// awards & achievements
★ Saama Hackathon · 2025

Best Technical Implementation & Execution

AI-driven Protocol Document standardizer. Robust background job pipeline using FastAPI to digitize PDFs to interpretable JSONs.

★ Saama Hackathon · 2024

Special Recognition Award

Interactive web debugger for the SDQ product. Built for the engineering team to inspect runtime state without local setup.

★ Kumaraguru College of Technology

MG Scholarship

Awarded during B.E. CSE for sustained academic standing.

// selected projects
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AI Protocol Document Standardizer

2025

Hackathon-winning tool that digitizes clinical protocol PDFs into structured, interpretable JSON. Background job pipeline using FastAPI for async processing.

FastAPIPythonPDF parsingLLMBackground jobs
 ★ hackathon 2025

NaviGuide — Activity Recommendation System

2022–2023

Highly scalable activity recommendation system for the college campus. New users get recommendations based on chats of previous users. Activities stream to Kafka, processed in real time on distributed PySpark nodes.

PySparkKafkaFlaskDistributed systems
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// certifications

Python

HackerRank

REST APIs

HackerRank

SQL

HackerRank

Java

HackerRank

JavaScript

HackerRank

// education

Kumaraguru College of Technology

B.E. Computer Science & Engineering · GPA 9.3/10

2019 → 2023

MG Scholarship for academic performance.

DBMSDSAOOPSDLC