Sravan Ravula — Senior Cloud Engineer · Full-Stack Developer · Generative AI & DevOps

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and AI-powered solutions. Expertise in C#, .NET, Terraform, React, and Generative AI, building secure enterprise platforms and modern full-stack applications across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Independently built and launched two production applications — including Byte AI (iOS & Web) and Infinity Finances — and co-founded TrueSpend, delivering products end to end from architecture and cloud infrastructure to AI integration, web, mobile, and production deployment.

Fort Lauderdale, FL · kumar.ravulaa@gmail.com · 908-420-0323

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Education — M.S. Electrical Eng · B.S. Electronics 2011 – 2016

Started in electrical/electronics engineering, then moved into software — a systems and math foundation that carried into cloud and backend work. M.S. EE, University of Missouri–Kansas City (2015–16); B.S. Electronics, KL University (2011–15).

EE / Electronics — Systems thinking + math foundation
Signals & Computation — Bridge from hardware into software

Accenture — Full-Stack .NET Developer · gov healthcare claims Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

Built distributed services and internal desktop tools for government healthcare claims processing (HMS medical-claims review); optimized SQL Server stored procedures by 75%.

C# / .NET — Enterprise standard
WCF / SOAP — Contract-based reliable service comms
WPF + MVVM — Clean internal desktop apps
SQL Server — Relational data + stored-proc tuning
InRule — Analysts change claim rules without redeploys

UPMC Health Plan — Senior .NET Developer · member platform Jan 2018 – Sep 2025

Seven years building scalable .NET APIs and front-ends for a healthcare member platform — owning 10 microservices, 25 worker services, and 8 databases end to end. Led an on-prem → Azure AI Search migration (sub-second results, >98% faster, load-tested) and integrated Azure OpenAI for natural-language queries.

.NET 8 / ASP.NET Core — High-performance APIs
Azure AI Search — Replaced slow on-prem search; sub-second, >98% faster
Azure OpenAI — Plain-English queries over 40 filters
Angular / React / Redux — Rich member UIs, predictable state
Redis — Cache hot data
NServiceBus / RabbitMQ — Reliable async messaging
SQL Server / Cosmos DB — Relational + distributed data
Azure DevOps CI/CD — Deploys ~8–10 min → under 2 min

Citrix — Senior Cloud Engineer · FedRAMP High Oct 2025 – Present

Multi-cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP) infrastructure for FedRAMP High systems. Drove cost optimization — migrated 4 Windows VMs to lightweight Linux Kubernetes pods (~$20K/yr) and built a daily pipeline that recovers ~$24K/yr in orphaned image storage. Automated Azure Policy enforcement via a Jenkins pipeline (multi-hour weekly process → one click) and built AI tooling for security triage and incident summarization.

Azure / AWS / GCP — Multi-cloud platform engineering
Kubernetes — Cost + scaling over VMs
Terraform — Auditable infra for FedRAMP
C# / PowerShell — Azure automation
Jenkins — One-click policy deploys
Azure OpenAI — Vuln triage → auto-Jira; ops summaries
Splunk Cloud (HEC) — Push-based telemetry

Byte AI — Solo · dev social platform live · ~50 DAU

A tech-focused social platform built end to end — backend, web, and native iOS — with hybrid semantic search and AI content features. ~50 daily active users.

.NET 9 — Core strength
Next.js / SwiftUI — Web + native iOS
Supabase / pgvector — Auth, DB, and vectors in one
ONNX embeddings — Self-hosted, ~free at scale
Reciprocal Rank Fusion — Blend keyword + semantic search
Gemini · SignalR · APNs — Tagging, chat, push

Infinity Finances — Solo · FIRE planning live

A financial-independence / retirement (FIRE) planning platform with a month-by-month portfolio simulation engine (Monte Carlo, tax-optimized withdrawals) and an AI assistant for data entry.

Next.js / React — Interactive calculators
Hono API — Ultra-light TS backend
Supabase — Persistence / auth
Gemini — Plain-English → structured inputs

TrueSpend — Co-founder · rewards optimizer in dev · TestFlight

A geo-aware app that recommends the best rewards credit card the moment you arrive at a store. Co-founded; in development on iOS TestFlight.

React Native + Expo — One codebase, iOS + Android
.NET 9 — Backend strength
Geofencing — Battery-efficient arrival detection
Plaid / Stripe — Real transactions + billing
Azure OpenAI (nightly) — Insights without realtime cost

Skills — the full toolbox

Full technical skill set across languages, frontend, cloud/devops, AI, data, and practices.

Languages & Frameworks: C#, .NET 8 / 9, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Entity Framework, MediatR, WCF, WPF / MVVM, TypeScript, Node.js, Swift

Frontend & Mobile: React, Next.js, Angular, Redux, Tailwind CSS, React Native, Expo, SwiftUI, Zustand, React Query

Cloud & DevOps: Azure, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes / AKS, OpenShift, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps CI/CD, PowerShell, FedRAMP High, SRE / observability

AI & Search: Generative AI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search (pgvector), hybrid search, ONNX, Azure AI Search, Solr

Data & Messaging: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Cosmos DB, Redis, NServiceBus, RabbitMQ, Splunk, HL7

Integrations & Practices: Plaid, Stripe, SignalR, REST / SOAP, OAuth / OIDC, Microservices, xUnit / Vitest / Playwright, TDD, SDLC, Agile / Scrum / SAFe

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Résumé

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Senior engineer who ships — cloud, full-stack, and the AI in between.

My whole career as one pipeline: every role, the measurable impact, and the exact stack. Skim the snapshot below, then open any stage for the receipts.

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9+ yrs

shipping production software

FedRAMP High

cloud infra at Citrix today

3 clouds

Azure · AWS · GCP, in prod

2 live apps

solo-built · +1 co-founded

~$44K/yr

cloud cost cut at Citrix

>98% faster

search rebuilt on Azure AI

Core stack

C# / .NETMicroservicesReact · Next.jsAzure · TerraformGenAI · LLMsSQL Server · PostgreSQL

Open to: Senior Cloud · Full-Stack · Generative-AI · Platform/DevOps roles — remote, or on-site in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Senior full-stack + cloud engineer, 9 years in, based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Two live apps of my own, one co-founded. Here's the whole run.

Education

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M.S. Electrical Eng · B.S. Electronics

2011–16

Started in electrical engineering, ended up in software — the systems-and-math foundation stuck around.

2011 – 2016 · UMKC · KL University

M.S. Electrical Engineering — University of Missouri–Kansas City
B.S. Electronics — KL University
Hardware-to-software jump that still shapes how I debug systems

EE / ElectronicsSignals & Computation

Accenture

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Full-Stack .NET Developer · gov healthcare claims

2017

Cut my teeth on federal healthcare claims — distributed services, internal desktop tooling, and a database I made a lot faster.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 · Washington, DC

Tuned SQL Server stored procedures — 75% faster
Shipped distributed WCF/SOAP services for HMS medical-claims review
Let analysts edit claim rules live via InRule — zero redeploys

C# / .NETWCF / SOAPWPF + MVVMSQL ServerInRule

UPMC Health Plan

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Senior .NET Developer · member platform

2018–25

Seven years as the go-to engineer on a healthcare member platform — APIs, front-ends, and the search rebuild everyone felt.

Jan 2018 – Sep 2025 · Pittsburgh, PA

Led platform initiatives end to end through the full SDLC
Led on-prem → Azure AI Search migration — sub-second, >98% faster (load-tested)
Owned 10 microservices, 25 worker services & 8 DBs end to end
Mentored engineers; set coding, code-review & CI/CD standards
Shipped Azure OpenAI natural-language search across 40+ filters
Cut CI/CD deploy time from ~8–10 min to under 2 min (Azure DevOps)

.NET 8 / ASP.NET CoreAzure AI SearchAzure OpenAIAngular / React / ReduxRedisNServiceBus / RabbitMQSQL Server / Cosmos DBAzure DevOps CI/CD

Citrix

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Senior Cloud Engineer · FedRAMP High

2025–now

Where I am now — building multi-cloud, FedRAMP High infrastructure, and teaching LLMs to do the security busywork.

Oct 2025 – Present · Fort Lauderdale, FL

Lead architecture/design reviews & cross-team technical decisions
Cut ~$20K/yr moving 4 Windows VMs → lightweight Linux K8s pods
Daily pipeline recovers ~$24K/yr in orphaned Azure image storage
Policy deploys: multi-hour weekly manual → one-click Jenkins pipeline
Built AI security-triage that auto-files Jira tickets
Multi-cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) infra to FedRAMP High standards

Azure / AWS / GCPKubernetesTerraformC# / PowerShellJenkinsAzure OpenAISplunk Cloud (HEC)

Personal projects — built on the side

Byte AI

Live

Solo · dev social platform

live · ~50 DAU

My indie app — a social platform for developers, built end to end by one person (me) and live with real daily users.

iOS + Web

Solo-built the whole stack: .NET backend, Next.js web, native SwiftUI iOS
~50 daily active users, live on the App Store
Hybrid semantic search: pgvector + self-hosted ONNX embeddings, fused with RRF
Personalized 'For You' feed — ranks by cosine similarity to per-user interest embeddings

.NET 9Next.js / SwiftUISupabase / pgvectorONNX embeddingsReciprocal Rank FusionGemini · SignalR · APNs

byteaiofficial.com App Store

Infinity Finances

Live

Solo · FIRE planning

live

A financial-independence planner that answers one scary question: when can you actually stop working?

Web

Month-by-month Monte-Carlo simulation with tax-optimized withdrawals
AI assistant turns plain-English input into structured financial data
Live in production (Next.js + Hono + Supabase)

Next.js / ReactHono APISupabaseGemini

firecalculator-app.vercel.app

TrueSpend

In development

Co-founder · rewards optimizer

in dev · TestFlight

Co-founded startup — a geo-aware app that tells you which card to swipe the moment you walk into a store.

iOS + Android

Co-founder — product + engineering, iOS & Android on one Expo codebase
Real money movement via Plaid + Stripe
Battery-efficient geofencing; nightly Azure OpenAI insights — in TestFlight beta

React Native + Expo.NET 9GeofencingPlaid / StripeAzure OpenAI (nightly)

truespend.org

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Complete technical skill set, grouped by category.

Languages & Frameworks

C#.NET 8 / 9ASP.NET CoreWeb APIEntity FrameworkMediatRWCFWPF / MVVMTypeScriptNode.jsSwift

Frontend & Mobile

ReactNext.jsAngularReduxTailwind CSSReact NativeExpoSwiftUIZustandReact Query

Cloud & DevOps

AzureAWSGCPDockerKubernetes / AKSOpenShiftTerraformGitHub ActionsJenkinsAzure DevOps CI/CDPowerShellFedRAMP HighSRE / observability

AI & Search

Generative AIAzure OpenAIClaudeGeminiprompt engineeringembeddingsvector search (pgvector)hybrid searchONNXAzure AI SearchSolr

Data & Messaging

SQL ServerPostgreSQLSupabaseCosmos DBRedisNServiceBusRabbitMQSplunkHL7

Integrations & Practices

PlaidStripeSignalRREST / SOAPOAuth / OIDCMicroservicesxUnit / Vitest / PlaywrightTDDSDLCAgile / Scrum / SAFe

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That's the whole run — nothing broke, nobody got paged. I'm open to senior cloud, full-stack, and GenAI roles.

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