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Sandesh Reddy Patlolla
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Purdue Computer Science and Data Science senior with experience in backend APIs, full-stack development, data analytics, and machine learning. Seeking 2027 new-grad software engineering, ML engineering, and data science roles. PSM II-certified with experience leading Agile delivery across two project teams.
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Trips2gether/
Senior Project Jan. 2026 · Present Built a collaborative travel platform with 109 FastAPI endpoints , 24 SQLAlchemy models , and a Next.js and TypeScript frontend deployed on Railway and Netlify . Integrated Duffel sandbox flight search and booking, Stripe test-mode wallet and group payments, and Google Places destination hotel, and restaurant discovery. Engineered biometric login using face-api.js , multi-frame descriptor matching, and randomized 2–3 step liveness challenges delivered WebSocket polls, group chat, shared itineraries, and Claude-assisted trip planning.
Film Foodie/
Junior Project Aug. 2025 · Present Designed and implemented Film Foodie’s relational backend across 139 FastAPI endpoints and 47 SQLAlchemy models , supporting authentication, social connections, reviews, bookings, collaborative itineraries, payments, and notifications. Built multi-stop routing with Google Maps Directions and Distance Matrix APIs , evaluating up to 10 restaurants and ranking each by added travel time between the user and selected theater. Integrated six services —TMDB, Google Places, Yelp, OpenTable, Anthropic Claude, and Stripe test mode—for discovery, AI planning, collaborative itineraries, reservations, reminders, and demonstration payments.
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Work experience
Machine Learning Intern
Soniks Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. · India · May 2026 – Aug. 2026
Worked on a three-month machine-learning project using an LSTM neural network to model stock-price and volatility patterns in financial-market data. Worked with transformer models to explore relationships among multiple technical indicators in financial-market data. Researched and resolved data-channeling and timestamp issues while preparing sequential inputs and debugging the model with a technical mentor.
Junior Software Developer & Data Analyst
Soniks Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. · India · May 2024 – Aug. 2024
Built and optimized TravelTrip using FastAPI, Node.js, AngularJS, and PostgreSQL , delivering three workflows for flight booking hotel-price comparison, and personalized itinerary generation. Reduced backend API latency by approximately 10–15% through FastAPI endpoint optimization, SQLAlchemy query refinement and improved PostgreSQL access. Developed WebKonf , a browser-based video-conferencing application using WebRTC, Django, and socket-based signaling to enable real-time peer-to-peer communication.
Data Analyst Intern
Rythmos (now part of Coforge) · Hyderabad, India · Jun. 2023 – Aug. 2023
Processed website-traffic data using Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, and Plotly . Built Python-based dashboards and traffic graphs to monitor live website activity and visualize performance trends. Compared traffic data across months and calculated percentage changes to evaluate traffic growth and SEO performance.
Licenses & certifications
Data Engineering
DeepLearning.AI, AWS, Credential · Oct. 2026
View credential ↗Deep Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI, Credential · Oct. 2026
View credential ↗Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI, Stanford Online, Credential · Oct. 2026
View credential ↗Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
Scrum.org, Credential · Mar. 2026
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