Phanindra Srungavarapu — Staff Engineer

About

Staff engineer with 13+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, optimizing performance, and leading engineering teams. Deep expertise in Rust, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native architectures across API platforms, AI/ML pipelines, and developer tooling. Known for improving system reliability, mentoring engineers, and contributing to open-source projects.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer Jul 2026 – Present

Diligent (BoardEffect)

Supporting BoardEffect team members with engineering delivery and collaboration.

Lead Engineer Apr 2024 – Apr 2026

SmartBear (PactFlow)

Lead engineer in PactFlow India team, transitioning to API Hub/Swagger Hub using Step Functions (Rust). Led migration of asynchronous processing to Sidekiq, reducing queue latency and improving background job reliability. Contributed to open-source Pact Broker ecosystem, enhancing CI/CD integration and contract publishing. Improved CI/CD processes, database backups, performance, and scalability across core services.

Ruby Rust Node.js TypeScript Python AWS DynamoDB

Engineer Manager Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

Vantage Solutions

Managed 6 fullstack engineers (RoR, Node.js, React, Rust) and 3 QA; handled stakeholder management, timelines, quarterly and annual planning. Owned sprint planning, daily standups, technical blocker resolution, conflict resolution, appraisals. Conducted team retros, 1:1s, and cross-team collaboration; maintained ~95% sprint estimation accuracy.

Ruby on Rails Node.js React Rust AWS PostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer Dec 2020 – Dec 2021

Vantage Solutions (Aloha Engineering)

Led team building client APIs from scratch; owned delivery, tackled tech debt via refactoring and CI/CD implementation. Adopted RSpec testing, maintained API docs, integrated RuboCop for code quality.

Node.js Ruby on Rails TypeScript AWS PostgreSQL React

Software Engineer Apr 2016 – Nov 2020

Circle Software Ltd

Integrated APIs, optimized SQL and load times, set up analytics and downtime alerts, automated RoR upgrades. Migrated infra to Google Cloud Kubernetes; set up DB replicas and automated workflows (migrations, SSL, alerts).

Ruby on Rails JavaScript MySQL Google Cloud Bash Python

Project Team Lead May 2014 – Mar 2016

Webstream.io

Mentored juniors, planned and estimated work, pair programming, code reviews.

Ruby on Rails JavaScript MySQL Google Cloud Bash

Software Engineer Jul 2013 – Apr 2014

Webstream.io

Handled debugging, tests, features, client discussions, and project setup.

Ruby on Rails JavaScript PostgreSQL Google Cloud Bash Python

Open Source

Wayle : Forked Wayle (Wayland layer shell built in Rust, compatible with Niri, Hyprland, etc.) with added dock support and bug fixes such as dropdown opacity fix.
Whisper App : Real-time speech-to-text app using Whisper.cpp, built with Rust and Iced for Linux and Mac; minimal, performant, and lightweight for background operation.
Noctalia Ollama Assistant : UI layer + conversation history compactor on top of Ollama for Noctalia Desktop Shell; supports multiple OpenAI-compatible providers with persistent multi-conversation chat.
NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Plugin : Real-time GPU metrics plugin for Noctalia Shell on Linux; polls nvidia-smi every 250ms with visual graphs, color-coded alerts, and customizable display options.
FramePack Core Low VRAM : Forked FramePack with aggressive tiling optimizations for low-VRAM GPUs; restructured for pipeline integration.
Past projects include SDXL Hunyuan video generation pipelines (FastAPI server + Android client) and pgAdmin GenAI desktop app.

Skills

Languages/Frameworks Rust, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, JavaScript

Data/Infrastructure PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Nginx, Shell scripting

Core Competencies Performance optimization, Contract testing (Pact/PactFlow), CI/CD, Sidekiq, Database design, Project management, Mentorship, Agile

Tools Jira, Git, Docker, GenAI pipelines (SDXL, Hunyuan, FramePack)

Contact

LinkedIn · GitHub