# Vishnu Priya Prasanna Venkatesh > Software Engineer @ Cardinality.ai | Distributed Systems & Data Infrastructure Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vishnupriyaprasannavenkatesh Backend engineer with 3+ years experience in distributed systems and ML research. Currently at Cardinality.ai, I build real-time data synchronization services supporting 1M+ users and processing 10M+ records daily. I've optimized data sync pipeline performance by 40%, resolved critical data integrity issues affecting production systems, and implemented monitoring infrastructure for proactive system management. My background combines production backend engineering with ML expertise. I hold an MS in Computer Science from USC with published research in NLP and knowledge graphs, and built production ML systems at Fidelity including recommendation engines that reduced query response time by 40%. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cardinality-ai Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed and built scalable backend services for real-time data synchronization, processing 10M+ records across distributed systems using FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Redis, and Kubernetes, enabling reliable data access for 1M+ daily active platform users. - Diagnosed and resolved critical AWS DMS data truncation affecting 37-65% of production records, implementing a custom bi-directional data sync pipeline that restored data integrity for 50M+ record operations. - Reduced data sync pipeline runtime by 40% through chunked batch processing and built CloudWatch monitoring infrastructure with automated alerts, enabling near-real-time data availability. ### Course Producer @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States Course Producer for CSCI572 - Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines ### Research Assistant @ USC Information Sciences Institute Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Marina del Rey, CA - Designed comprehensive taxonomy framework for logical fallacy classification and developed knowledge graph injection methods for transformer models, achieving 20% performance improvement in fallacy detection. - Contributed to dialogue modeling research for negotiation strategy identification, implementing multi-task learning approaches with LLMs that improved cross-domain performance by 25% ### Software Engineer @ CEG Tech Forum Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chennai - Built a low-latency gaming platform serving 1M+ registered users and 100K concurrent users, covering OAuth authentication, real-time leaderboards, and full-stack development across Node.js, TypeScript, React and MongoDB. ### Software Engineer @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chennai Area - Developed ML-powered recommendation system for scanning regulatory compliance documents and answering customer queries using transformer embeddings and Elasticsearch, reducing customer inquiry response time by 40%. - Designed similarity search pipeline incorporating clustering, approximate nearest neighbors, and optimized distance metrics for efficient query ranking at scale. ### ML Research Intern @ College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 - Built multi-modal classification pipeline for educational content detection using Inception-V3 and ELMO embeddings, achieving 98% F1 score on curated dataset of 1000+ YouTube videos - Developed flood monitoring system integrating instance segmentation and named entity recognition to analyze social media data for disaster detection and location extraction - Deployed real-time pipeline processing 1000+ social media posts daily for flood detection, reducing disaster response time by 60% through automated water level estimation ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science College of Engineering, Guindy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vishnu-priya-p - Website: https://github.com/vishprivenkat --- Source: https://flows.cv/vishnupriyaprasannavenkatesh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vishnupriyaprasannavenkatesh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05