Charan Koppuravuri

About Me

The Person Behind the Code

Hey! I'm a backend engineer who genuinely loves what I do. Over the past 7+ years, I've been lucky enough to work on some really cool projects — from AI systems that think for themselves to platforms that handle massive amounts of data.

What gets me excited? Taking a messy, complex problem and turning it into something elegant that just works. I'm the kind of engineer who'll own a feature from the first whiteboard sketch all the way to watching it run smoothly in production (and yes, I'll still be checking the logs at 2 AM because I care that much).

These days, I'm deep into the world of AI agents and LLMs — building systems that can actually understand and act on information at scale. It's fascinating stuff, and I'm having a blast figuring out what's possible.

End-to-End Ownership

I see projects through from idea to production

AI Enthusiast

LLMs, RAG, and building smart agents

Cloud Native

AWS is my playground

When I'm Not Coding...

Movies & Series

Big fan of sci-fi, thrillers, and anything with a good plot twist. Always up for movie recommendations!

Travelling

Love exploring new places, trying local food, and getting lost in cities I've never been to before.

Reading

Tech blogs, system design deep-dives, and the occasional fiction to switch off.

Gaming

Strategy games and RPGs are my go-to. Sometimes the best debugging happens after a gaming break!

Career Journey

Work Experience

Gameopedia

Senior Software Engineer

June 2025 — Present Hyderabad

Building the future of AI-powered data classification in the gaming industry. This one's been a wild ride!

Created Braigent from scratch — an AI platform that lets non-technical folks build their own classification agents. Pretty cool seeing business teams use it without needing us!
The system now hits 95%+ accuracy on tag classification, which honestly exceeded our initial expectations
Built pipelines that chew through ~2 TB of gaming data daily. Lots of late nights optimizing that one!
Working closely with product teams to turn their domain expertise into deployable AI agents

Python LLMs Agentic AI Data Pipelines

Druva Solutions

Staff Software Engineer

Sept 2022 — March 2025 Hyderabad

Owned core backup & recovery features for enterprise SaaS. Learned what "scale" really means here.

Took charge of backup and restore for Salesforce, Microsoft EntraID, and Dynamics 365 — the kind of data companies really can't afford to lose
Built a Data Discovery algorithm that finds and maps 3.5M+ records per hour. Speed was everything here
Pitched an idea for automatic data expiration — it worked so well that other teams adopted it company-wide 🎉
Created a reliability checker that validates S3 backups. Customers sleep better, and so do I

Python AWS Microservices SaaS Scaling

ATAI Labs

Software Engineer

Jul 2018 — Sept 2022 Hyderabad

Where it all began! From trainee to team lead — this is where I fell in love with IoT and real-world systems.

Software Engineer Mar 2020 — Sept 2022

Built digital twins of shipping terminals using GPS/GNSS — we got positioning down to 1-foot accuracy. Mind-blowing when you see it work
Created navigation services that find the fastest routes through container yards. Like Google Maps, but for forklifts
Got promoted to lead a team of 6 for Gate & Rake automation — my first taste of engineering leadership
Deployed our systems at terminals across India. Nothing beats seeing your code run in the real world

Software Engineer Trainee Jul 2018 — Feb 2020

Got my hands dirty with IoT — worked with LoRa networks and Semtech gateways
Built the backend that made all our IoT devices talk to each other seamlessly
Learned that the best code is the code that works reliably in the real world, not just in tests

Python C/C++ GPS/GNSS IoT LoRa Navigation Team Lead

Education

Academic Background

Gayatri Vidya Parishad (Autonomous)

B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering

2014 — 2018 Visakhapatnam 80.49%

Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions

Intermediate (+2) — MPC

2012 — 2014 Vijayawada 97%

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Programming

Python C/C++ Java SQL NoSQL

AI & Machine Learning

Vertex AI RAG MCP Agentic AI LLM Orchestration

Backend & Architecture

Microservices gRPC REST APIs Django FastAPI Falcon CherryPy

Cloud & AWS

S3 EC2 ECS SQS Lambda API Gateway Aurora DB DynamoDB

Distributed Systems

RabbitMQ Celery MQTT Task Queues Event Driven Multi Processing

DevOps & Tools

Docker CI/CD Git CloudFormation Agile

Portfolio

Featured Projects

Open Source 2024

RAG News Summarizer

A local-first RAG pipeline that fetches news from RSS feeds, indexes them in ChromaDB, and generates AI-powered summaries using Ollama. Built with LangChain and Streamlit.

Python LangChain ChromaDB Ollama Streamlit

ML/Security

Keystroke Biometrics

ML-powered biometric authentication system identifying users based on unique typing patterns. Achieved 92% accuracy across 120+ users.

Python Scikit-learn Streamlit

Hardware IIT Bombay 2015

SoUL - Solar Urja Lamp

Cost-effective, power-efficient solar lamp for rural households. Top-3 ranking among 600+ participants at IIT Bombay Techfest.

Solar IoT Hardware

Algorithm

Sudoku Solver

Python Sudoku solver using human-like strategies: naked pairs, hidden singles, and constraint propagation.

Python Algorithms

Recognition

Achievements & Certifications

Research Publication

Mathematical research paper published in IJCRT

Stanford University

Machine Learning Certification

Microsoft MTA

Software Development Certification

HackerRank

Python & Problem Solving Certified

Get in Touch

Let's Work Together

Have a project in mind or want to discuss opportunities? I'd love to hear from you.

Email

Drop me a message

charan.code9@gmail.com

LinkedIn

Connect with me

linkedin.com/in/charan-koppuravuri

GitHub

Check out my code

github.com/charanpool

Hi, I'm Charan