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Hemachandra ReddyAI & Data Engineer

AI & Data Engineer in Hyderabad.
I build thoughtful, reliable software.

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AI ENGINEERING / HYDERABAD

Building useful AI,
end to end.

I’m an AI and Data Engineer in Hyderabad building production-minded AI applications: research agents, retrieval-augmented generation systems, document intelligence, data pipelines, and the interfaces that make them usable.

01

AI agents & LLM applications

Designing contextual assistants, recursive research workflows, prompt systems, and reliable language-model integrations.

02

RAG & knowledge systems

Connecting embeddings, vector databases, semantic retrieval, and grounded answers for documents and personal knowledge.

03

Data & product engineering

Shipping Python and FastAPI services, PostgreSQL data systems, automation pipelines, and responsive React and Next.js experiences.

01 / SELECTED WORK

Things I’ve
put into the world.

A collection of ideas, experiments, and things built to be useful.

(06)
01 / 06AI research

Scout

An evidence-first recursive AI research agent that searches multiple sources, crawls the web, verifies citations, and builds deeper answers.

  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • Qdrant
  • AI agents
02 / 06Personal knowledge

Second Brain

An AI knowledge-management system with semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, vector embeddings, and connected note workflows.

  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • Pinecone
  • PostgreSQL
03 / 06Web3 · fork / contribution

SimpleWeb3

A focused React interface for connecting wallets and sending Ethereum transactions, contributed as a fork of Tools.SimpleWeb3.

  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Wagmi
04 / 06Document intelligence

PDF RAG Assistant

An intelligent document assistant for uploading PDFs, retrieving relevant passages, and answering natural-language questions with grounded context.

  • Python
  • LangChain
  • FastAPI
  • RAG
05 / 06Conversational AI

CogniTalk

A conversational AI application with local language models, streaming chat, saved conversations, and automatically generated titles.

  • Python
  • Streamlit
  • Ollama
06 / 06Machine learning

Fraud Detection

A machine-learning pipeline that uses feature engineering and supervised learning to identify suspicious transactions in imbalanced financial data.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-learn
More experiments on GitHub
02 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE CODE

Curious by nature.
Engineer by choice.

I’m Hemachandra, an AI and Data Engineer based in Hyderabad, India. I turn complicated problems into reliable, thoughtful products.

My work spans AI agents, RAG applications, REST APIs, databases, data pipelines, microservices, and React interfaces.

Outside the editor, you’ll find me with a camera, noticing quiet corners, or working through a problem on LeetCode.

A little daily problem solving

The toolkit

LANGUAGES

Python · Rust · C++ · JavaScript

PRODUCT & DATA

React · Next.js · Node.js · FastAPI
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · MySQL · Kafka

TOOLS & SYSTEMS

Docker · Microservices
GitHub Actions · Figma

03 / ALONG THE WAY

Always building.

2026 — PRESENT

Align Labs

AI & Data Engineer

Building AI infrastructure for a marketing OS: LLM-powered microservices, real-time data pipelines, and reliable automation for multi-channel campaigns.

JUL — DEC 2024

CodeNebula

SDET Intern · Remote

Built a Web3 platform with React and Rust. Shipped REST APIs and CI/CD pipelines, and maintained over 95% test coverage.

EDUCATION

Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology

B.Tech · Information Technology · CGPA 7.14/10

CONTINUING TO LEARN

UX Design Process · Coursera
160 Days of Problem Solving · GeeksforGeeks

04 / AWAY FROM THE EDITOR
A quiet moment in nature from my photography collection
PERSONAL NOTE / FEB 2025

Camera
& code.

Photography trains my eye; coding trains my mind. Both remind me to slow down, notice the details, and enjoy the process of getting unstuck.

Read the note +

Most of my days are split between carrying a camera on long walks and solving problems in code. For me they share the same habit: pay attention, explore a few angles, and slowly shape something that feels right.

My favorite photos are rarely planned. They happen when I’m just paying attention: light on a wall, a reflection, the way people move through a street.

I treat coding problems like tiny design challenges. Understand the constraints, explore approaches, and write clean solutions. Good work comes from trying small ideas and not giving up when something feels stuck.

Stay patient, stay curious, and keep improving one small step at a time.

05 / THE NEXT GOOD THING

Have something
in mind?

Let’s make it happen.
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