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| { | |
| "basics": { | |
| "name": "Krishna Penukonda", | |
| "label": "Full Stack Software Engineer", | |
| "image": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13855549?v=4", | |
| "email": "[email protected]", | |
| "website": "https://penukonda.me", | |
| "summary": "Generalist AI Engineer. Currently working on agentic capabilities for interactive hyper-realistic video avatars at Tavus (YC S21).\n\nPreviously built scalable agentic systems for ecommerce at Hypotenuse AI (YC S20), and developed computer vision models for instance segmentation and real-time object detection systems at Qritive and Red Dot Robotics.", | |
| "location": { | |
| "city": "Singapore", | |
| "countryCode": "SG" | |
| }, | |
| "profiles": [ | |
| { | |
| "network": "LinkedIn", | |
| "username": "krishna-penukonda", | |
| "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishna-penukonda" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "network": "GitHub", | |
| "username": "tasercake", | |
| "url": "https://github.com/tasercake" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "url": "https://penukonda.me" | |
| }, | |
| "work": [ | |
| { | |
| "name": "Tavus (YC Summer '21)", | |
| "position": "Senior Software Engineer", | |
| "startDate": "2025-11", | |
| "endDate": "", | |
| "location": "Singapore", | |
| "url": "https://tavus.io/", | |
| "summary": "Building agentic capabilities for interactive hyper-realistic video avatars", | |
| "description": "", | |
| "highlights": [] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "name": "Hypotenuse AI (YC Summer '20)", | |
| "position": "Lead Software Engineer", | |
| "location": "Singapore", | |
| "url": "https://hypotenuse.ai", | |
| "startDate": "2021-01-04", | |
| "summary": "First full-time hire, owned engineering end-to-end at Hypotenuse AI. Architecting and scaling AI-powered content and image pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps workflows while mentoring the team and working with product to drive reliable, high-impact releases.", | |
| "highlights": [ | |
| "Owned architecture, reliability, and roadmap for AI content systems at scale (1M+ users, P99 <500ms, >99.999% availability) - balancing cost, velocity, and product tradeoffs", | |
| "Established engineering standards and mentored 25+ engineers; drove team-wide velocity improvements (70% faster CI, 50% faster PR cycles) and instituted observability/incident practices that cut MTTA to <60s.", | |
| "Accountable for platform economics and operational excellence - delivered 30% infrastructure cost reduction while scaling LLM and media workloads to enterprise SLAs." | |
| ], | |
| "description": "", | |
| "endDate": "2025-08-01" | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "name": "Qritive", | |
| "position": "Computer Vision Engineer", | |
| "url": "https://qritive.com", | |
| "startDate": "2018-10", | |
| "endDate": "2018-12", | |
| "summary": "Developed Object Detection and Instance Segmentation models for use on gigapixel-scale medical images", | |
| "location": "Singapore", | |
| "highlights": [ | |
| "Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV, OpenSlide" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "name": "Red Dot Robotics", | |
| "position": "Computer Vision Engineer", | |
| "startDate": "2018-05", | |
| "endDate": "2018-09", | |
| "summary": "Developed real-time Object Detection and Tracking models for deployment on autonomous vehicles", | |
| "location": "Singapore", | |
| "highlights": [ | |
| "Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "education": [ | |
| { | |
| "institution": "Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)", | |
| "area": "Information Systems Technology and Design", | |
| "studyType": "Bachelor of Engineering", | |
| "endDate": "2020-09" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "skills": [ | |
| { | |
| "name": "Core Skills", | |
| "keywords": [ | |
| "Generative AI", | |
| "LLMOps", | |
| "Full Stack Development", | |
| "Site Reliability Engineering", | |
| "Prompt engineering", | |
| "Technical Leadership", | |
| "DevOps", | |
| "Cloud Architecture" | |
| ] | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "name": "Technologies", | |
| "keywords": [ | |
| "Python", | |
| "TypeScript", | |
| "React.js", | |
| "FastAPI", | |
| "PostgreSQL", | |
| "Celery", | |
| "DynamoDB", | |
| "Redis", | |
| "AWS", | |
| "OpenTelemetry", | |
| "GitHub Actions", | |
| "Vector Databases", | |
| "Git", | |
| "Docker", | |
| "PyTorch", | |
| "Next.js", | |
| "Rust" | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| } |
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