A Krishna Srikar

Software Engineer

DeveloperFilm EnthusiastIMAX Enthusiast

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Scene 01· About

Hello.

I'm Krishna, a software engineer. I like building things end-to-end, the kind of work where you design the database schema in the morning and argue with a hover state at night. Most of my stack is TypeScript: React and Next.js up front, Node and Postgres behind it. Lately there's Swift in the mix too, because I wanted my Mac's notch to do something useful.

I care about clean user experiences more than clever code. Software should feel considered, not assembled. The details worth obsessing over are the quiet ones: empty states, loading order, the space between things.

Away from the keyboard, I'm mostly at the movies. I log everything on Letterboxd, and I'll cross the city for a real IMAX screen. That part of me keeps finding its way into what I build. You'll notice it around here if you look closely.

Technical Specifications

Languages
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonC++C
Frontend
React.jsNext.jsTailwind CSSFramer Motion
Backend & APIs
Node.jsNestJSREST APIsCelery
Databases & Infra
PostgreSQLMySQLRedisDockerVPS Deployment
Developer Tools
GitGitHub ActionsClaude CodeCursorPostman

Scene 02· Letterboxd

Frame by frame.

Everything I watch, logged and rated. Rendered live by a stat-card service I wrote myself.

Live Letterboxd stat card for akrishnasrikar, film counts and recent watchesOpen the project

Featured Moment

My review of Top Gun: Maverick was featured in Times Square.

Written from a theater seat. Projected over Seventh Avenue, beside the film it praised.

Scene 03· Experience

Where I’ve been.

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Prod. Co.GRAPEDAWN
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DateMar 2025 – Mar 2026
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Software Developer Intern

GrapeDawn

  • Contributed across production client applications using Next.js, React, NestJS, TypeScript, and Python, working on frontend systems, API integrations, and backend service workflows.
  • Designed multi-service workflows connecting NestJS applications with Python NLP services, using Redis Pub/Sub and Celery workers for asynchronous indexing, data synchronization, and background processing.
  • Configured environment-isolated event channels and VPS-hosted services with Redis and database connectivity, while using Claude Code and MCP-based workflows to navigate codebases and accelerate implementation.
Next.js & ReactNestJSRedis Pub/SubCelery
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Prod. Co.GDG ON CAMPUS
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DateJun 2025 – May 2026
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Co-Lead

Google Developer Group on Campus

Organized 10+ technical events with 500+ participants and delivered five web-development talks along the way. Started as an organizer, moved into leading the community: running mentoring sessions, guiding new speakers, and growing engagement by roughly a third.

Community LeadMentorshipPublic Speaking
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Prod. Co.ADYPU, PUNE
Roll / RoleBTECH_CS
Date2023 – 2027 (expected)
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BTech, Computer Science

Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune

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B.Tech CS2023 – 2027

Scene 04· Leadership & Volunteering

Beyond the codebase.

Feature 01Jun 2025 – May 2026

Co-Lead

Google Developer Group on Campus

Community & Tech Leadership

Organized 10+ technical events with 500+ participants and delivered five web-development talks along the way. Started as an organizer, moved into leading the community: running mentoring sessions, guiding new speakers, and growing engagement by roughly a third.

10+

Tech Events

500+

Attendees

+33%

Engagement

Feature 02Mar 2025 – Present

Volunteer

PawsCare NGO

Volunteering & Compassion

Volunteering with the PawsCare NGO, assisting in the treatment of stray dogs and organizing community adoption events to find permanent homes.

Rescue

Medical Aid

Adopt

Local Events

Care

Stray Welfare

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Scene 05· Projects

Built to be used.

Experience it inIMAX
Glance's Pomodoro screen expanded below the MacBook notch, ring timer, Focus/Break selector, Start button

Glance

A Live Activity layer for the MacBook notch. Now Playing, Pomodoro, and a priority-driven interruption engine, native in Swift 6 with 90 tests behind it.

Swift 6 · SwiftUI · AppKit

FLOWSTATE · EXECUTION PLANEWEBHOOKHMAC-SHA256 ✓SCHEDULEΔ DETECT · 30SMANUALPOST /FIREQUEUEREDIS · BULLMQWORKER ×5RETRY · BACKOFFHTTPEMAILNOTIFY{{payload}}DEAD-LETTERRETRY ↻AUDIT LOG · APPEND-ONLY12:04:11 · workflow.triggered · wf_8f2c · webhook · dedup=miss12:04:12 · execution.succeeded · 3 actions · 412ms

FlowState

A self-hosted workflow automation engine. HMAC-verified webhooks, queued execution on BullMQ, retries, dead-letter recovery, and a full audit log.

NestJS · PostgreSQL · Redis · BullMQ

Letterboxd Card output, a generated SVG stat card

Letterboxd Card

Embeddable SVG stat cards for any Letterboxd profile. Scraped with Cheerio, cached in Redis, rendered with Satori. The one on this page is live.

Express · Satori · Upstash Redis · Vercel

CinemaScope home screen, a dark cinematic film discovery interface with a full-width movie backdrop

CinemaScope70 mm

Film discovery with full-viewport backdrops on TMDB data, backed by a Supabase design that keeps the API key server-side with per-endpoint Postgres caching.

React · Vite · Supabase · Tailwind CSS

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Scene 06· Writing

Occasionally, I write.

Coming soon

The first piece lands here shortly. Notes on building software, with the occasional film detour.

Roll Credits

Let's make something worth watching.

akrishnasrikar@gmail.com