Building scalable systems • AI/LLM pipelines • symbolic math tools • retro audio apps • high-security paranoid Linux setups
Focused on backend architecture, full-stack deployments, RAG/ML workflows, and competitive programming (ICPC), while constantly turning ideas into real code.
- CLOS: founded and led since 2023, ~1,500 weekly active users, with 8 subsystems built from scratch (custom DB engine, symbolic math parser, 3D renderer, matrix library, and more)
- Olin AERO: software lead for a 5-engineer team building the full autonomy stack for an sUAS drone. Previously built a ground station holding stable 20 FPS telemetry at 10-mile range with sub-100ms latency.
- ICPC: team member, focused on data structures and graph/DP/flow algorithms
- CLOS — Offline math utility with autodiff, graphing, equation solving, simulation, CLI + GUI capable of doing just about anything (Java + HTML + CSS + C++ + Java)
- W.A.G.E — Local-first AI job search strategy tool (React + Typescript/Tailwind + Python + FastAPI)
- ClassicTunes — Reviving iTunes 7–10 vibes as a native Apple Silicon macOS player (Swift + SwiftUI + Metal + Claude Assistance)
- OSM2Mesh — Map to game-ready 3D city model generator with full texturing (Python + OpenStreetMap + Tkinter)
- 3D Gesture Tracking — Hand tracking utility to control Blender 3D Viewport (Python + OpenCV + MediaPipe)
More projects + details → smaran-vallabhaneni.com
(And many more: full list in my portfolio)
