Sama
Gnaneshwar
Reddy
Staff Software Engineer. Previously Microsoft, Amazon.
I'm a software engineer with nine years building systems at Amazon, Microsoft, and now Endian AI, where I help clients modernize legacy software with applied AI. Earlier, I built exchange and returns infrastructure for Amazon.in and an async workload platform for SharePoint at Microsoft. Outside of client work, I build and run production systems end to end.
Selected work
Canopy
Multi-tenant school management platform — control-plane / data-plane architecture, serving live schools.
FleetTrack
Vehicle tracking portal built for TSRTC, Telangana's state transit corporation.
MindGraph
A flashcard app in the spirit of Anki, with Notion sync and AI-generated questions.
Writing
The boring part of shipping an LLM feature into old software
The hard part is never the prompt. It's retries, timeouts, and idempotency when a job queue built for deterministic calls now has to live with a model that isn't.
What VQA taught me about evaluation debt
A benchmark score is a hypothesis about your users' questions. Most teams ship before they've tested that hypothesis against a single real photo.
Prompt chaining is a state machine, not a pipeline
Treat step two's malformed output as a shell pipe and step three won't error — it'll hallucinate around the gap. Chains need guards, not just arrows.
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