Aakash Madabhushi
Software Engineer I ship services that stay responsive under load, and the tooling that lets anyone else run them with one command.
43% faster loads on 75+ customer dashboards, 12.4 s to 7.1 s at p95
6× faster repeat profile loads under 100 concurrent users
5M+ rows a day through production services at Sapaad
17 containers coordinated over Kafka, across 5 service groups At Sapaad, built production services and pipelines moving 5M+ rows a day, and cut load time on 75+ customer dashboards by 43% by profiling where the slow queries spent their time. Kept a 17-container recruiting platform responsive by moving slow résumé parsing and AI matching onto Kafka queues, and made repeat profile loads 6 times faster under 100 concurrent users with a Redis cache. Made my work easy for anyone else to run: a ROS 2 simulator setup in one command, a prediction service that redeploys itself to AWS on every commit, and a 100-trial robot test harness that recovers from crashes. Shipped a Chrome extension and a companion SwiftUI iOS app, kept in sync through Cloud Firestore. 7 projects in this area Every link goes to code or data you can inspect yourself.
Spring 2026 · Coursework
LinkedIn Simulation with an AI Recruiting Assistant Takes a recruiter from a pile of résumés to a shortlist without slowing the page, and asks before contacting anyone.
Jul 2026 to present · Personal project
Reader, an Attention-Management Browser Extension Tells you where your attention actually went today, and keeps every page you read on your own machine instead of on a server.
Spring 2026 · Coursework
Event-Driven Yelp Clone Lets one part of a review site fail without taking the rest down, because its services talk through events, not direct calls.
Aug 2026 to present · Personal project
Real2Sim2Real: Mirroring a Real Workspace into Simulation Copies the real table in front of the robot into a simulator, so a policy can practise against the layout it will actually meet.
Apr 2025 · Personal project
Thyroid Recurrence Predictor Carries a cancer-recurrence model the whole way from a notebook to a live service that redeploys itself on every commit.
Mar 2026 · Hackathon
AgentForge, a Self-Healing API Monitor Notices an API has broken, works out why, and fixes it without waking anyone up. Built in five hours at a hackathon.
Mar 2026 · Personal project
ROS 2 + Gazebo, Containerized Gets a robotics simulation stack running on a Mac or a Linux box in one command, instead of an afternoon of driver errors.
Select a project for its figures, stack and links.
× LinkedIn Simulation with an AI Recruiting Assistant SJSU DATA 236, Distributed Systems · Spring 2026 · Software Engineering, AI Engineering, Data Engineering
Takes a recruiter from a pile of résumés to a shortlist without slowing the page, and asks before contacting anyone.
Results
6× faster repeat profile loads, under 100 concurrent users
17 containers across 5 service groups Built with FastAPI · Kafka · LangGraph · React · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · Docker
× Reader, an Attention-Management Browser Extension Personal project · Jul 2026 to present · Software Engineering, AI Engineering
Tells you where your attention actually went today, and keeps every page you read on your own machine instead of on a server.
Built with TypeScript · React · Vite · Chrome MV3 · SwiftUI · Cloud Firestore · Gemini Nano
× Event-Driven Yelp Clone SJSU DATA 236, Distributed Systems · Spring 2026 · Software Engineering, Data Engineering
Lets one part of a review site fail without taking the rest down, because its services talk through events, not direct calls.
Built with JavaScript · Kafka · Docker
× Real2Sim2Real: Mirroring a Real Workspace into Simulation Personal project, built on NVIDIA's Sim-to-Real SO-101 workshop · Aug 2026 to present · Robot Learning, Software Engineering
Copies the real table in front of the robot into a simulator, so a policy can practise against the layout it will actually meet.
Built with Python · NVIDIA Isaac Sim · ROS 2 · OpenCV · ArUco · LeRobot · Docker
× Thyroid Recurrence Predictor Personal project · Apr 2025 · ML Engineering, Software Engineering
Carries a cancer-recurrence model the whole way from a notebook to a live service that redeploys itself on every commit.
Built with Python · scikit-learn · FastAPI · Docker · GitHub Actions · AWS EC2
× AgentForge, a Self-Healing API Monitor SJSU Applied Data Science Hackathon 2026 · Mar 2026 · AI Engineering, Software Engineering
Notices an API has broken, works out why, and fixes it without waking anyone up. Built in five hours at a hackathon.
Built with Python · FastAPI · LLM · Railtracks · React
× ROS 2 + Gazebo, Containerized Personal project · Mar 2026 · Robot Learning, Software Engineering
Gets a robotics simulation stack running on a Mac or a Linux box in one command, instead of an afternoon of driver errors.
Built with Docker · Docker Compose · ROS 2 Jazzy · Gazebo Harmonic · TurtleBot3 · VNC
Hiring for software engineering? I'm available from December 2026 and open to relocating. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
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