Full-Stack & Cloud Engineer

Rakesh
Maravar

I build scalable web applications, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered products.

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Experience

Where I've worked,
learned & engineered.

Nov 2024 — Feb 2025

Dresden, Germany

Software Engineer

Optimeleon

Part of the core engineering team building a conversion rate optimization platform powered by microservices, artificial intelligence, and large language models.

  • Built a web scraping system to extract data from client websites and automatically generate optimized content variants.
  • Implemented background job processing for data analysis, content generation, and real-time conversion event tracking.
  • Designed and enhanced the user dashboard to surface actionable insights and performance metrics.
  • Worked within a scalable microservices architecture integrating AI and LLM-powered intelligence.
TypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsMicroservicesAILLMs

Feb 2024 — Aug 2024

Bangalore · Remote

Software Engineer Intern

Samsung R&D Institute India — PRISM

Contributed to a research project focused on generative AI and image editing using Stable Diffusion XL and Fooocus.

  • Integrated Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) with Fooocus for high-quality AI image generation and editing.
  • Developed a web-based interface for region-specific image editing using natural language prompts.
  • Implemented selection-based editing workflows allowing users to target specific regions of an image.
  • Built prompt-driven controls that made advanced generative AI workflows accessible to technical and non-technical users.
PythonStable Diffusion XLFooocusGenerative AIImage Editing

Teaching

Learning is better
when you teach it.

I share what I learn about system design, distributed systems, software architecture, and engineering through my YouTube channel.

YouTube Channel

Rakesh
Kanneeswaran

Practical explanations of system design and software engineering concepts — from architecture and distributed systems to the engineering decisions behind real-world applications.

System DesignDistributed SystemsArchitectureBackend Engineering
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System Design

Learn · Design · Build

@RakeshKanneeswaran

Selected Work

Things I've built,
designed & engineered.

A selection of products and systems I've designed, built and deployed — from AI-powered applications to distributed backend systems and cloud infrastructure.

01

AI / Full Stack / Cloud

SpeakPrep AI

An AI-powered interview preparation platform designed to help candidates practice interviews, receive intelligent feedback, and improve their technical and communication skills.

Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonPostgreSQLAWSDockerTerraform
View Case Study→GitHub

02

AI / Healthcare

Clinico AI

An AI-powered clinical documentation platform that records conversations, transcribes them, and generates structured clinical notes for healthcare professionals.

Next.jsPythonRAGOllamaSupabase
View Case Study→GitHub

03

Full Stack / AI

CourseCopilot

A SaaS platform that transcribes and translates video content while allowing users to interact with the content through AI-powered question answering.

Next.jsKafkaPostgreSQLAI
View Case Study→GitHub

Technical Stack

Tools I use to
build & ship.

A practical stack built around full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and generative AI.

013 skills

Languages

The languages I use to build applications and services.

TypeScriptJavaScriptPython
023 skills

Frontend

Modern interfaces and full-stack web applications.

React.jsNext.jsZustand
033 skills

Backend

APIs, services, and scalable backend systems.

Express.jsFastifyFastAPI
044 skills

Databases

Relational, document, analytical, and caching systems.

PostgreSQLMongoDBClickHouseRedis
058 skills

Cloud & DevOps

Infrastructure, deployment, automation, and observability.

AWSDockerTerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsGrafanaPrometheusCloudWatch
063 skills

Messaging & Workflows

Event-driven systems and background workflow orchestration.

Apache KafkaInngestHatchet
074 skills

Generative AI

Building applications around modern AI and retrieval systems.

RAGLangChainLangGraphLLMs

Hackathons & Competitions

Built under pressure,
competed to win.

A collection of hackathons, coding competitions, and innovation challenges where I competed, built, and placed among the top teams.

LEAP’24 — 1st Place
1st Place
01

LEAP’24

Ideathon to Hackathon

March 2024
Pentathon — 1st Place
1st Place
02

Pentathon

Coding Competition

February 2024
Appathon — 1st Place
1st Place
03

Appathon

App Development Competition

October 2023
The Idea Explorer 2023 — 2nd Place
2nd Place
06

The Idea Explorer 2023

National Level Project Exhibition

October 2023
Synapse 2.0 — 3rd Place
3rd Place
07

Synapse 2.0

National Level Hackathon

April 2024
IntelliHack SRM 2025 — 3rd Place
3rd Place
08

IntelliHack SRM 2025

National Level Hackathon

2025

Research

Researching ideas,
building intelligent systems.

Research Publication2026

Published on

IEEE Xplore

Natural Language ProcessingGenerative AIClinical DocumentationContext-Aware AILarge Language Models

IEEE Publication

Context-Aware AI Framework for Automated Clinical Documentation Using Advanced NLP

A research project exploring an AI-driven framework for automating clinical documentation using natural language processing and context-aware intelligence.

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Contact

Let's build something
interesting together.

I'm always interested in meeting engineers, builders, researchers, founders, and people working on interesting technical problems.

Email↗

rakikanneeswaran@gmail.com

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LinkedIn↗

/in/rakeshkanneeswaran

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Rakesh Maravar

Software Engineer · Cloud · DevOps · AI

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