Skip to the recordSHEET 01SURVEY IN PROGRESSTRAVERSE 2015–2028SURVEYED TO 2026-07ILLUMINATION 315° / 45°
Code is poetry written for machines, read by humans.
Satya Sampathirao
Senior Software Engineer · Scout for Schools · New York
Twelve years across eight domains — FX order flow, IoT fleets, an Ethereum ledger, tremor caught on a phone camera, the vaginal microbiome, and now schools.
Stations9 · WEST TO EAST
01 / 9
MAY 2015 — JUN 2018
3 yr 1 mo
New York
AOL — StyleMePretty
Software Engineer, Full Stack
- Problem
- A publishing property serving millions of readers a month on a rendering path that could not keep up with its own traffic.
- Constraint
- Editorial output could not pause for an engineering rewrite, and the audience arrived on phones long before the site was built for them.
- Decision
- Universal JavaScript with server-side rendering — one codebase rendering on both sides of the wire, so the first paint came from the server and the session continued on the client.
- Measured
- 18Mmonthly active users
Artifact — StyleMePretty
Immersive web experiences at publishing scale. Universal JavaScript applications with server-side rendering.
stylemepretty.com ↗02 / 9
JUL 2018 — JAN 2019
6 mo
Minnetonka
Trimble Transportation
Software Engineer II
- Problem
- Fleets of IoT devices emitting telemetry in formats that had accreted per-device, so nothing downstream could read anything it had not been written for.
- Constraint
- Devices already in the field could not be reflashed, and the formats they spoke could not be broken.
- Decision
- Re-architected the object formats behind a centralised repository, so interoperability became a property of the schema rather than of each consumer.
Artifact — Trimble IoT Systems
Distributed applications for IoT devices in transportation. Object formats re-architected around a centralised repository for interoperability.
- IoT
- Distributed Systems
- Java
trimble.com ↗03 / 9
APR 2019 — JUL 2019
3 mo
Toronto
Polymath
Full Stack Developer
- Problem
- Securities law is a set of rules about who may hold what; a token contract is a set of rules about who may hold what. Nobody had made the two the same object.
- Constraint
- On-chain, and therefore immutable — compliance logic had to be right before deployment, not after.
- Decision
- Built DApps on Ethereum for the first legal-compliance-integrated platform for security token offerings, encoding the restriction at the transfer layer.
Artifact — Polymath Token Platform
DApps on Ethereum for the world's first legal compliance integrated platform for security token offerings.
polymesh.network ↗04 / 9
JUL 2019 — JUL 2021
2 yr
Toronto
OANDA
Software Engineer
- Problem
- At a global FX broker the distance between arriving and trading runs through registration, identity and compliance — and every step of it loses people.
- Constraint
- Regulated in every jurisdiction it operates in, so the funnel could be shortened but never loosened.
- Decision
- Growth work across Registration, Compliance and Customer Experience as one path rather than three departments.
Artifact — OANDA Trading Platform
Growth strategy across Registration, Compliance and Customer Experience at a global FX trading leader.
oanda.com ↗05 / 9
JUL 2021 — JUL 2022
1 yr
Toronto
Clearco
Senior Software Engineer
- Problem
- Founders raising growth capital were being underwritten on documents when the evidence of their business was already sitting in their revenue data.
- Constraint
- Underwriting decisions had to be defensible, so the inputs had to be auditable end to end.
- Decision
- Built the tooling that turns connected commerce and banking data into an underwriting position.
Artifact — Clearco Founder Tools
Products and tools helping founders access capital and grow their businesses.
- NodeJS
- Vue
- NestJS
- PostgreSQL
clear.co ↗06 / 9
OCT 2021 — OCT 2024
3 yr
San Francisco Bay Area
NEquest
Co-Founder / CTO
- Problem
- Neurological assessment requires a specialist in the room. Most of the world does not have one, and the signal being assessed — how a body moves — is visible to a camera.
- Constraint
- A phone camera, ordinary lighting, and a patient who is not a technician. No wearables, no clinic.
- Decision
- Motor assessment from video: pose and landmark extraction feeding models that score movement, built to run on the device the patient already owns.
Artifact — NEquest Motor Assessment
AI-powered neurological care democratising access to brain health. Motor assessment from video using TensorFlow, Mediapipe and Google Vision AI.
- React Native
- TensorFlow
- Mediapipe
- Google Vision AI
07 / 9
SEP 2022 — APR 2025
2 yr 7 mo
Remote
A.Team
Full Stack Engineer
- Problem
- A sequence of companies each needing the same thing: the distance from an idea to a system real users depend on, walked once, correctly.
- Constraint
- Every engagement a different domain, a different existing codebase, and a team that had to be productive in it within days.
- Decision
- Built MVPs and took them to production rather than to demo — healthcare applications, LLM-powered clinical tools, and commerce platforms.
Artifact — LLM Clinical Tools
LLM-powered clinical tools for healthcare providers — medical documentation and decision support, built and scaled from MVP to production.
a.team ↗08 / 9
APR 2025 — MAR 2026
11 mo
New York
Evvy
Senior Software Engineer
- Problem
- Half the population has a microbiome that clinical medicine has barely characterised, and the path from a test result to a treatment someone can actually take is a supply chain, not an insight.
- Constraint
- A prescription is a regulated object. Fulfilment has to be correct on the first attempt, every attempt.
- Decision
- Order processing and prescription fulfilment pipelines — the unglamorous machinery between a sequenced sample and a treatment arriving at a door.
Artifact — Evvy Platform
Precision healthcare built on vaginal microbiome science. Ecommerce order processing and prescription fulfilment pipelines.
- TypeScript
- React
- HealthTech
evvy.com ↗09 / 9
MAR 2026 — PRESENT
4 mo
New York
Scout for Schools
Software Engineer
- Problem
- The work that accumulates around teaching — everything administrative that attaches itself to every student — takes hours from the part of the job that actually needs a person in it.
- Decision
- Applying AI to the busy work rather than to the teaching, so the time it gives back goes to educators.
Artifact — Scout for Schools
Taking busy work off educators with AI, so the hours go back into teaching.
- TypeScript
- React
- NodeJS
- AI/LLM
scoutforschools.com ↗StrataMONTHS SHIPPED · NOT SELF-RATED
TypeScript / JavaScript
13 yr 2 mo
The structural grain of every station east of 2015.
React / Next.js
11 yr 11 mo
Server-rendered universal apps at StyleMePretty; the interface layer since.
Node.js / Backend
9 yr 11 mo
Order processing and prescription fulfilment pipelines at Evvy.
AI / ML Integration
5 yr 11 mo
TensorFlow + Mediapipe motor-assessment pipeline at NEquest.
Python
5 yr 7 mo
Model and vision work behind the NEquest assessment tooling.
AWS / Cloud
4 yr
The infrastructure under an 18M-MAU publishing property.
Distributed Systems
3 yr 9 mo
Centralised object-format repository across an IoT fleet at Trimble.
Java / Scala
6 mo
Distributed IoT applications at Trimble. Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6.
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LegendWHAT THE SYMBOLS MEAN
Control marks — education
MS, Computer ScienceUniversity at Buffalo, SUNY · 2013–2015
BTech, Computer ScienceJNTU, India · 2009–2013
Authorities — certification
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6
Microsoft Bootstrap Honor Code
Languages
EN — EnglishNative / bilingual
TE — TeluguNative / bilingual
HI — HindiProfessional
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