Backend Engineer · AI Systems · Web3

Sesha SaiVamsi Marella

From 0 to 1.
From 1 to n.

I've built trading engines, backend platforms, data systems, and blockchain infrastructure. I like owning a product from its first implementation through the hard engineering that follows.

What I bring to the table

Most of my work has been behind the scenes: the APIs, execution engines, databases, and infrastructure that make a product work.

A.

Backend & Infrastructure

I've built APIs, query engines, and transaction systems from scratch. Concurrency, caching, databases, cloud infrastructure, and the occasional production bug that takes an entire day to find.

  • Python, FastAPI, asyncio
  • PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS
  • Query engines & data pipelines
  • Concurrency & performance
B.

Web3 & Blockchain

I spent a good part of my engineering career on DeFi infrastructure. Not just interacting with smart contracts, but building the systems that find routes, calculate prices, execute trades, and talk to liquidity pools.

  • DEX aggregators & trade routing
  • Solidity, EVM & smart contracts
  • Protocol AMM & yield logic
  • Cross-chain execution infra
C.

AI & Research

I've worked on machine learning and computer vision, from experimenting with model architectures to implementing inference systems. I also have experience with academic research.

  • Machine learning & neural nets
  • Computer vision
  • Model inference
  • Academic research

Things I've built

01 / Data Engineering

Query Engine

A SQL engine that queries Parquet files directly from cloud storage, without importing the data into a database first.

Scanned just 0.2% of the data using three layers of query optimization. Same answer, 99.8% less data scanned.

Python · Django · PyArrow · Polars · Celery · S3 / MinIO
02 / Cloud Infrastructure & Security

VibeDeploy

A deployment platform that automatically isolates each customer's data, tests for security gaps, and controls what AI agents can access.

200+ simulated attacks before every deploy. Even a forgotten database filter can't expose another customer's data.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL RLS · AWS ECS · IAM · MCP · CDK
03 / Backend Infrastructure

Feature Flags & Experimentation

A system for rolling out features, running A/B experiments, and changing application behavior without redeploying code.

Sub-millisecond decisions, zero server calls per evaluation, and feature updates delivered in under a second.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · SSE · TypeScript
04 / Quantitative Systems

Adverse Selection Pipeline

A research pipeline that measures how prices move against market makers after their orders get filled.

From raw exchange trades to a reproducible market-risk study, across six time horizons from 1 to 300 seconds.

Python · Polars · Parquet · WebSockets
05 / Financial Infrastructure

Multi-Exchange Trade Reconciliation

Matches internal trades against actual exchange fills across Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken to detect missing, partial, or suspicious executions.

Database-enforced duplicate protection, replayable exchange events, and live discrepancy detection across three exchanges.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · SQLAlchemy · SSE · Next.js
06 / Real-Time Systems

Multiplayer Game Server

A real-time multiplayer game backend that handles matchmaking, move validation, disconnects, rematches, and leaderboards.

The server owns every move. Clients can't cheat by changing their local game state.

TypeScript · Nakama · WebSockets · PostgreSQL · React · Docker
07 / Blockchain Infrastructure

CLAMM Tick Collector

A Solidity system that reads liquidity distribution across concentrated-liquidity pools, including Uniswap V4-style protocols.

Gas-bounded liquidity scanning using bitmaps, bitwise math, and low-level Solidity assembly.

Solidity · EVM · CLAMM
08 / Cross-Chain Infrastructure

Cross-Chain ERC20 Bridge

Moves tokens between two blockchains by locking tokens on one chain and issuing their equivalent on another.

Validator-signed transfers with nonce-based replay protection, verified across the complete two-chain lifecycle.

Solidity · Node.js · Hardhat · Ethers.js · ECDSA
09 / Blockchain Security

Transaction Verification & Monitoring

Verifies blockchain transactions using cryptographic proofs and monitors on-chain activity through live event streams.

Merkle proofs, multi-signature verification, and batched on-chain checks in one verification pipeline.

Python · FastAPI · Solidity · WebSockets · Keccak256
10 / AI & Applied Research

Physics-Informed Fire Forecasting

An AI system that detects fires in video and predicts how they may spread using neural networks and heat-transfer physics.

92% fewer false positives, 89% accuracy on high-risk objects, running at 12–15 FPS.

Python · PINNs · YOLOv8 · OpenCV · Kalman Filters
11 / Medical AI

Endoscopic Disease Classification

A deep-learning system that analyzes endoscopic images to identify and classify ten different pathological conditions.

10 disease classes. 92.3% classification accuracy using an ensemble of specialized neural networks.

Python · TensorFlow · CNN · Deep Learning
12 / Computer Vision

Vehicle & Taillight Tracking

A computer vision system that tracks vehicles, detects brake lights, and identifies unusual driving behavior from video.

Three detection models working together at 30 FPS on 1080p video.

Python · YOLOv8 · Computer Vision · Object Tracking

Where I've been

May 2026 –
Sept 2026

Founding Engineer

OneCent Labs

Built and operated real-time trade routing, settlement, pricing, and indexing infrastructure.

  • Built and run a real-time trade routing and settlement engine that has processed $1.6M+ in live volume, averaging 386 successful settlements/day.
  • Built the core bidding pipeline around a 4.85s hard deadline, maintaining a 99.3% valid-response rate for requests coming every 6 seconds.
  • Cut worst-case response time 7× from 20.3s to 2.9s by reducing 780 candidate routes to 17 before network calls, running survivors across 32 workers, and fixing async and connection-pool bottlenecks.
  • Built route search across 20K+ assets and 38K+ liquidity pools using bounded multi-hop search, liquidity-aware ranking, fanout limits, and request-size-aware pruning to stay within the bidding budget.
  • Built pricing and indexing systems with path simulation, outlier filtering, confidence scoring, batched RPC discovery, and zero-downtime repricing of 7,900+ records.
  • Integrated 74 protocol adapters across 91 chain-specific setups; reverse-engineered undocumented pricing logic and validated results to 1e-4 tolerance against forked-chain execution.
  • Hardened production with async connection pooling, caching, request deduplication, circuit breakers, rate limits, retries, and backoff; also reduced 240MB/hr of duplicate logs and added request tracing, failure capture, and replay tooling.
  • Root-caused silent production failures across APIs, contracts, DNS, and networking, including 200 OK responses that dropped submissions and TCP connects that consumed the full execution deadline; owned deployments and monitoring across AWS/GCP.
PythonasyncioEVMRoutingAWSGCP
Jan 2025 –
Feb 2026

Backend Engineer

GlueX Protocol

Owned async backend services, yield aggregation, data pipelines, and production operations.

  • Built and owned an async Python/FastAPI backend handling thousands of concurrent requests with non-blocking I/O, parallel execution, background jobs, and sub-10ms cached response times.
  • Built a yield aggregation service across 55+ DeFi protocols, standardizing reward schedules, lending rates, liquidity incentives, and pool data into consistent APY, borrow-rate, and TVL metrics.
  • Designed 8 specialized TTL/LRU caches, reducing codebase complexity by 37.5% and lock contention by 40%; built fault-tolerant batch pipelines processing 2,000+ pools and yield sources per run.
  • Engineered async RPC orchestration for hundreds of EVM calls per cycle using batching, retries, timeout isolation, and rate-limit-aware scheduling; designed low-latency data paths with DynamoDB, Timestream, async writes, and cache-first reads.
  • Deployed and operated workloads on AWS Lambda and EC2 with horizontal scaling, event-driven jobs, zero-downtime releases, structured logs, dashboards, alerts, health checks, and p50–p99 latency monitoring.
FastAPIasyncioDynamoDBTimestreamAWS LambdaEC2
Nov 2023 –
Jan 2024

Software Development Engineer Intern

Olive Technologies
  • Built Node.js inventory REST APIs and request validation, plus a React Native OCR capture flow that converted scanned bills into structured JSON for backend ingestion.
Node.jsREST APIsReact NativeOCR

My tech stack

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC++Solidity

Backend & Systems

FastAPIDjangoFlaskNode.jsExpress.jsREST APIsAsync programmingPandasNumPy

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2AWS LambdaServerlessCloudWatchDocker

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLDynamoDBAmazon TimestreamPrismaORMSQLAlchemy

Blockchain & DeFi

EVMEthers.jsweb3.pyHardhatFoundryERC-20 / ERC-4626CPAMM / CLAMMExecution simulation

Frontend

ReactReact NativeReduxTailwind CSS

Published work

Publication · IEEE

A Physics-Informed Computer Vision Framework for Firefighting Assistance

Firefighters move through smoke-filled rooms with almost no information about what is about to catch next. Pure vision models are no help there: they see objects, not thermodynamics. This paper puts the physics back in with a framework that fuses real-time object detection with heat-transfer modelling, so the system reasons about conduction, convection, and radiation rather than pattern-matching flames.

Detected objects are scored for ignition risk from their material properties and thermal response, and a physics-informed neural network predicts how the fire will spread across the scene. Grounding the predictions in conservation laws cut false positives by 92% and reached 89% accuracy on high-risk object identification and spread forecasting at 12–15 FPS, fast enough to run on the equipment a crew actually carries.

IEEE 9th Intl. Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT) · Chennai · 2025
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Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering · Chennai
Sept 2021 – July 2025

Let's connect.

Open to backend, infrastructure, and founding engineering roles. Happy to talk systems, ideas, or opportunities.

Email
vamsi.marella027@gmail.com
Phone
+91 75500 27299
GitHub
@27vamsi
LinkedIn
Sesha Sai Vamsi
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