Backend Developer with a strong foundation in scalable system design, API development, and cloud-native applications. Experienced in delivering production-ready solutions using Go, Python, and C++, with expertise in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation workflows. Skilled in applying design patterns, low-level architecture, and test automation to build reliable, maintainable systems. Passionate about solving complex problems, contributing to open-source projects, and continuously learning new technologies.

• 🎓 Education:

Software Engineer – Oleria | July 2024 – Present

• Contributed to the end-to-end integration of Okta and ServiceNow applications within the product.
• Supported successful deployment and testing of these integrations in a customer environment managing over 100,000 users.
• Conducted extensive research to gain deep understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) features, OAuth authentication mechanisms, and relevant REST APIs for data retrieval in both applications.
• Designed and implemented end-to-end test automation workflow set-up for the product using AWS Lambda, Playwright and GitHub Actions.

Research Assistant - M.Tech Thesis IIT Hyderabad | July 2023 - June 2024
Securing Network Infrastructure: Safeguarding Data Plane Systems Against Attacks on Probabilistic Data Structures

• Domain: Probabilistic Data Structures, Network Security, Smart-NICs, DPU, DOCA SDK
• Description:
  • Research: Investigated Pollution/DDoS attacks on probabilistic data structures. Studied NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU Architecture and Netronome Agilio Smart-NIC.
  • Technology: Set up NVIDIA BlueField-2 P Series DPU in IIT Hyderabad Data Center on a host server. Implemented FlowRadar Data Plane Packet Processing System utilizing Bloom Filter on Netronome Agilio Smart-NIC in C language and NVIDIA BlueField-2 P-Series DPU using DOCA SDK.

• Bank System Backend Web Service in Go
  • Designed database schema using DBML and generate SQL code using SQLC
  • Handle transactions, DB isolation levels and avoid deadlocks
  • Developed a RESTful backend web service using the Gin framework
  • Secured the APIs with JWT and PASETO user authentication
  • Built a minimal docker image and used Github Action to automatically build and deploy the app to AWS EKS
  • Config Kubernetes Ingress to route traffic to the webservice
  • Extended the webservice to support gRPC and gRPC gateway
  • Run background workers to send and process email tasks asynchronously with Redis and Asynq
• Splitwise App - Low Level Design
  • Designed and implemented low level design for a bill-splitting application inspired by Splitwise
  • Modeled core entities users, groups, expenses, transactions, balanceSheet and their relationships.
  • Applied Strategy and Factory Design patterns
  • Developed features including equal/unequal expense splitting, group-based expense tracking and simplify debts to minimize the number of transactions among users
• Simple AI Agent
  • Designed and implemented a general-purpose AI agent in Python capable of autonomous task execution.
  • Developed a suite of custom tools to enhance the agent’s reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
  • Evaluated performance against the GAIA Benchmark to validate accuracy, adaptability, and robustness.
• Alumni Information System
  • A platform that stores and manages alumni data while also providing updates on college events, news, and networking opportunities
  • Multiple user login, Event posting, Data visualization, and Alumni Registration Approval
  • Used Django Framework and Deployed using heroku

• Zitadel
  • SortingColumn functionality on system and admin API ListIAMMembers (link)
  • ListIAMMembers on system and admin APi provide the resoureowner as user resourceowner (link)

• Fundamentals of AI Agents – link
• Building Neo4j Applications with GO - link
• Neo4j Fundamentals - link
• Introduction to DOCA - link
• Kubernetes for Absolute Begineers- Hands on – Udemy
• Building Web Applications with Django – Coursera

Languages: Go, C++, Python, TypeScript
Frameworks: Gin, Django
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j
DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
Automation: Playwright
APIs & Protocols: REST, GraphQL, gRPC

• Securing In-Network Fast Control Loop Systems from Adversarial Attacks :
  Authors: Harish S A, Divya Pathak, Mahanth Kumar Valluri, Sree Prathyush Chinta, Amogh Bedarakota, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana
  Published in: COMSNETS 2024
  📄 My contribution to the paper demonstrates the results of DDoS attacks on Smart-NICs

• 📧 Email: [vallulrimahanthkumar@gmail.com]
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mahanth-kumar-valluri