AN ORIGINAL SCREENING
PrathamTandon
Software Engineer · Mumbai · Chennai, India
Backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and the unglamorous engineering that makes numbers go down and reliability go up.
RUNTIME 11:42 · CINEMASCOPE · NO INTERMISSION
Reel 02
The Craft
Chapter Two · an opening-credits sequence
A cast of tools, billed in order of appearance. Nothing here for show — only what earns its place on set.
Hover to slice each card clean through
APIs that stay boring under load. Contracts before code, guards at every door.
Ship on green, roll back in seconds. The pipeline is the product too.
The right store for the query. Columnar when it counts, indexed where it hurts.
Fundamentals over frameworks. Know the machine, then pick the language.
Models that earn their latency. Proofs where correctness is not negotiable.
Reel 03
On Location
Chapter Three · shot where the work happened
Entrupy
MLOps Intern/May 2026 — Aug 2026/Remote · Multi-cloud
- 01Built an internal multi-vendor cloud cost dashboard (FastAPI, DuckDB, PyArrow/Parquet, AWS, Docker) exposing spend via REST, a Slack bot, and an MCP server across AWS, Verda, Pinecone and others — shipped through GitHub Actions CI/CD to EC2.
- 02Designed a DynamoDB-backed RBAC system with team groups, Super Admin / Owner / Member permissions and audit logging; extended the Slack bot & MCP Q&A to enforce resource-level access control.
- 03Implemented per-user Verda cost attribution, daily Slack reports and automated spike detection — uncovering untracked resources.
- 04Leading an internal dataset service on AWS event-driven infra with Parquet storage and SDK/CLI tooling for sub-5-minute dataset creation.
The money shot
$1,500+/day
recurring cloud spend eliminated
Reshoots · before / after
DRDO — Scientific Analysis Group
Research Intern/Jun 2025 — Jul 2025/On-site · Formal Methods
- 01Researched formal verification techniques — SAT/SMT solving and model checking — and verified 10 logic-based system models using Z3 and Alloy, uncovering edge-case failures.
- 02Applied LTL/CTL temporal logic and loop invariants to validate correctness in concurrent software protocols.
The money shot
10 models
formally verified · edge cases surfaced
Reel 04
The Feature
Chapter Four · three scenes · each its own world
HireHelp
AI-Assisted Recruitment · Full-Stack
A recruitment platform where every hiring decision leaves a tamper-proof trail — and the right candidate rises without waiting.
- React
- FastAPI
- MongoDB
- Solidity
- Groq LLM
- FAISS
Selected scenes
Full-stack platform with JWT-based RBAC (Applicant / Recruiter / Admin) enforced via API guards and role-aware routing.
RAG-based resume-matching pipeline (sentence-transformers, FAISS) with cached chunking and async processing for low-latency, non-blocking scoring at scale.
Blockchain-backed audit logging (Solidity, web3.py, Ethereum Sepolia) for verifiable, tamper-proof hiring records.
Rural-Digital-Bank
ML + Blockchain Fraud Prevention
A fraud-prevention system that scores risk in under a millisecond and writes the verdict somewhere no one can quietly rewrite.
- React
- Flask
- scikit-learn
- Solidity
- Ethereum
Selected scenes
Hybrid fraud-detection pipeline pairing an Isolation Forest anomaly model with rule-based risk multipliers — real-time 0–100 risk scores at sub-millisecond inference.
Client-side browser fingerprinting and transaction telemetry for real-time fraud signals with no backend round-trips.
Gas-efficient Solidity contracts (storage packing, paginated queries) logging tamper-proof audit trails on Ethereum.
TourSphere
Full-Stack Tour Booking Platform
A booking platform built on discipline — reusable controllers, geospatial search, and an API hardened for the real world.
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- PhonePe
Selected scenes
REST API with an MVC, DRY controller-factory pattern and reusable CRUD logic — cutting controller duplication by 80%.
Geospatial search (MongoDB 2dsphere) with dynamic filtering, sorting and pagination for tour discovery.
JWT auth (−90% access bugs in testing), PhonePe payments, an in-memory image pipeline (multer + sharp), and hardening via helmet, rate-limiting and sanitization.
Reel 05
End Credits
Chapter Five · thank you for staying
Above the Line
Directed by
Pratham Tandon
Screenplay by
Pratham Tandon
Produced by
Curiosity & Caffeine
Executive Producer
A refusal to ship flaky code
Principal Cast
Systems & Backend
FastAPI · Node.js · System Design
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS · Docker · CI/CD
Data & Storage
DuckDB · Parquet · MongoDB
Technology Department
Rendered with
React · Next.js · TypeScript
Motion by
Motion
Composited in
Tailwind CSS
Sound Design
Web Audio API
Distinctions
Education
B.Tech CSE — VIT Chennai · 2023–2027
Class Rank
8th of 1000+ · CGPA 9.43 / 10
Special Thanks
- Every stack trace that eventually made sense
- The reviewers who said "make it simpler"
- Coffee, and the occasional 3 AM incident
No legacy code was harmed during production.
If the story landed, the next scene is a conversation.
For Bookings & Correspondence
Winding down the reel
The End
The build goes green. The engineer reaches for the phone. Fade in on a new conversation.
Fade in on a conversation →Abandoned Concept
The intermission
A literal mid-scroll intermission card with a countdown. Charming for exactly one viewing. Cut.
Rejected UI
Skeuomorphic film strip nav
A sprocket-holed film strip you dragged to scrub reels. Gorgeous, unusable on mobile. Retired to the archive.
Failed Experiment
Real 3D projector booth
A WebGL booth casting the beam in true volumetric light. Beautiful at 20fps. The illusion beat the simulation.
A Pratham Tandon Production · 2026