Chandana Mallu

Full-Stack Software Engineer with a Master's in Computer Science and production experience building customer-facing React/TypeScript applications and scalable backend systems. Experienced shipping features across the full stack – React frontends, REST/GraphQL APIs and cloud-deployed services on AWS with Docker and CI/CD. Comfortable in fast-moving environments, integrating AI-powered features using LangChain, LangGraph and OpenAI into production applications.

Software Developer at MakerGhat (2025-12 – 2026-05)

• Built and shipped 10+ production React/TypeScript features using reusable component architecture and responsive design with CI/CD pipelines and integration tests ensuring quality across customer-facing releases
• Reduced page load times by 40% through Webpack optimization, code splitting, lazy loading and AWS S3-based static asset delivery

Research Assistant at North Carolina State University (2025-01 – 2025-12)

• Built end-to-end Python data pipelines for large-scale video datasets, handling ingestion, transformation and model training at scale – reducing processing time from 1 hour to 5 minutes through parallelized automation
• Improved model accuracy by 30% through iterative feature engineering and systematic debugging of production-grade ML workflows

Development Engineer Intern at Signify (2023-01 – 2023-06)

• Developed REST APIs and scalable React UI components serving 1M+ users across web and mobile clients with full API documentation and integration test coverage
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship a redesigned customer-facing dashboard, driving a 15% increase in user engagement

Software Developer Intern at DesiCloud (2022-06 – 2022-12)

• Built a real-time customer management dashboard for 100+ enterprise clients with Chart.js visualizations that cut decision-making time by 30% and implemented role-based access controls for 500+ users

M.S. in Computer Science – North Carolina State University

B.E. in Information Science – JSS Science & Technology University