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Sri Harsha Tenali

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  • Brex
    Software Engineer (Contract)
    Brex
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 9 months)
    Designed and owned backend modules for an enterprise spend management platform serving 35,000+ business customers across expense reporting, ERP integrations, and real-time policy enforcement workflows
    • Architected RESTful and GraphQL APIs for the expense reporting and GL coding module using FastAPI, supporting multi-currency transaction processing across 150+ enterprise clients
    • Owned the real-time spend policy rule-evaluation engine, designing configurable enforcement logic that reduced policy violation escape rate by 14–19% across card transaction workflows
    • Designed ERP integration APIs syncing with QuickBooks and NetSuite using PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, achieving 99.97% sync reliability across scheduled and event-triggere
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    Research Assistant
    University of Illinois Springfield
    Jul 2024 - Dec 2024 (6 months)
    Prototyped a RAG-based pipeline for financial document retrieval and question-answering using LLMs, evaluated against SEC filing datasets as part of graduate research in applied NLP
    • Prototyped a RAG pipeline using LlamaIndex 0.10.x and ChromaDB to retrieve and answer questions over SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K), achieving Recall@K of 0.81–0.85 against a BM25 keyword search baseline
    • Evaluated embedding strategies using text-embedding-ada-002 across the FinanceBench dataset (~4,500 QA pairs), benchmarking Faithfulness scores of 0.86–0.92 and Answer Relevancy of 0.78–0.84
    • Investigated LLM fallback behavior by integrating gpt-3.5-turbo as primary and Phi-3-mini as local fallback, documenting latency and accuracy tradeoffs a
  • slice
    Software Engineer
    slice
    Jan 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 11 months)
    Built and maintained backend microservices for a digital lending platform serving 5M–12M registered users across real-time loan origination, repayment, and fraud detection workflows
    • Developed the repayment scheduler and EMI calculation engine in Python, reducing failed repayment processing events by 18–23% through retry logic and idempotency handling across 200,000+ monthly card transactions
    • Built a rules-based fraud detection engine evaluating 100+ credit scoring variables per application, achieving 91–94% flagging precision across the real-time loan origination pipeline
    • Implemented event-driven onboarding workflows using AWS Step Functions and MongoDB Atlas Change Streams, with Kafka event streaming patterns reducing
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  • U
    Master of Science in Computer Science
    University of Illinois Springfield
    GPA: 3.94/4
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    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
    MRIET
    GPA: 7/10
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    Securing Pharmaceutical Data Using Homomorphic Encryption
    • Designed a two-layer encryption system using AES-CTR encryption (pyaes + PBKDF2 key derivation) and Paillier homomorphic encryption for numeric quantities, ensuring all data remained encrypted at rest in MySQL
    • Implemented additive homomorphic operations on encrypted medicine quantities using the Paillier cryptosystem, enabling inventory updates directly on ciphertext without decryption
    • Built a role-based access control system in Django separating Employee and Manager permissions, with 256-bit Paillier keypair generation per medicine entry and AES-encrypted credential storage
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    Service Booking Platform
    github.comtenalisriharshaservice_booking_platform
    • Built a full-stack service booking platform using Django REST Framework and React.js with JWT authentication, role-based access control across client, provider, and admin roles
    • Designed RESTful API endpoints for booking slot management, provider availability configuration, and service search with date and name filtering, tested end-to-end via Postman
    • Architected a modular Django backend with separated concerns across accounts, booking, payments, and notifications apps, with SQLite in development and PostgreSQL-ready configuration for production
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    Ai Assistant for Appointment Scheduling
    github.comtenalisriharshaai-assistant-app
    • Architected a Flask REST API backend with a React.js + TypeScript frontend supporting natural language appointment scheduling via Grok API integration, with LLM-independent fast-path handlers for 12+ intent types processing common intents locally without API calls
    • Built a conflict-aware recurring event engine in Python supporting weekly, interval, and count-bounded recurrence patterns with cross-midnight window handling, bulk conflict detection, and skipped-conflict surfacing
    • Integrated Vosk-based local voice transcription as a speech input layer feeding the same NL processing pipeline, with a reminder polling system supporting toast notifications and snooze state management persisted via SQLite