Preetam Maske

He/Him

Software Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Most people care about how an app looks. I care about how it holds up at 3:00 AM when traffic spikes in Europe while the US is just waking up. My time at Volkswagen was a masterclass in global reliability; two years ensuring backends stayed upright across regions and time zones. When you're building at that scale, event-driven architecture and cloud-native design aren't just options, they're survival tactics.

My recent work has pulled me toward AI-native application development where AI Agents do real work, not just surface-level automation. A good example is AlphaRescue, an autonomous emergency dispatch system that listens to live distress calls, reasons about the situation, and coordinates the right response without a human in the loop.

I recently graduated with a Master's in Computer Software Engineering from SJSU, and I'm drawn to work where the problems are genuinely hard and the stakes are real.

Technical Skills

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaC++C#SQLDart

Frontend

ReactNext.jsAngularFlutterHTMLCSSTailwind CSS

Backend

Node.jsFastAPIFlaskExpress.jsREST APIsGraphQLMicroservicesShell Scripting

AI & Data

LangGraphLangChainRAG PipelinesPineconeDeepgramVoice ProcessingComputer Vision OCR

Cloud & Database

AWSEC2IAMALBS3Auto ScalingGCPDockerKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLRedisSupabaseChromaDB

Tools & Frameworks

GitKafkaAtlassian BambooCircleCITerraformBitbucketCI/CDLinux

Projects

Rufus

AI-Powered Shopping Assistant

• 2025

AI-powered shopping assistant using a LangGraph multi-agent workflow that routes conversational, text, and image queries...

LangGraphGPT-4oPineconeFastAPIRedis

AlphaRescue

AI Emergency Dispatch

• 2025

AI-driven emergency dispatch system featuring a VAPI voice assistant powered by Gemini that transcribes live distress ca...

VAPIGeminiFetch.aiSupabaseReactMapbox

BookTable

Restaurant Reservation Platform

• 2025

Role-based restaurant reservation platform built with FastAPI supporting Customer, Manager, and Admin workflows, reducin...

FastAPIPostgreSQLRedisAWS EC2Terraform

Reflectra

AI Journaling Companion

• 2024

AI-powered journaling platform with voice companion for task management and emotional support. Features personalized AI ...

PythonReflexOpenAIDeepgram

Fluento

Language Learning App

• 2021

Cross-platform language learning app with interactive tutorials, quizzes, and gamified elements. Winner of ISTE Hack-SPR...

FlutterDartFirebaseAndroid

IRIS

OCR Invoice Processing

• 2023

Enterprise OCR-based invoice processing system built at Volkswagen. Supports 1000+ users with automated deployment pipel...

AngularNode.jsFlaskMongoDB

Experience

Software Engineer

Volkswagen Group Technology Solutions

Aug 2022 – Jul 2024 · Pune, India

• Owned the Spare Parts Portal end-to-end; from requirements through production, serving 10,000+ enterprise users, reducing stakeholder back-and-forth by 30% through iterative delivery and documented API contracts.

• Eliminated SAP posting bottlenecks by introducing Kafka to decouple OCR, validation, posting stages; designed topics, partitions, and retention policies that cut processing pipeline latency by 40% under peak traffic spikes.

• Engineered microservices backed by MySQL with Redis caching, added targeted indexes and query optimizations that improved P95 API response time by 35% under real production load.

• Integrated Computer Vision OCR into invoice processing workflows using Flask and MongoDB, automating structured data extraction and reducing manual data entry effort by 60% for the finance operations team.

• Automated CI/CD pipelines using Atlassian Bamboo and shell scripting, reducing average release cycle time by 50% and enabling repeatable, low-risk deployments across both AWS EC2 and on-prem environments.

• Configured AWS security groups, IAM policies, and EC2 health checks for production Flask services, hardening the deployment environment and maintaining zero security incidents across a 2-year production run.

Software Developer Intern

Whiz Key (OPC) Pvt Ltd

Oct 2021 – Dec 2021 · Remote

• Delivered a real-time sensor monitoring dashboard using Node.js and REST APIs, streaming live device data with sub-second update latency and reducing manual reporting effort for operations teams by 70%.

• Built a cross-platform home automation app in Flutter with MQTT-based smart device control — real-time state toggles, automated scheduling, and push notifications — delivering a unified UX across Android and iOS from a single codebase.

• Designed end-to-end UI/UX wireframes for the home automation app covering device control dashboards, scheduling flows, and alert screens, translating product requirements into actionable development layouts.

Application Developer Intern

Simba Developers

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · Remote

• Shipped core features for a cross-platform application in Flutter and Dart, improving input-to-render latency by 25% through UI profiling and targeted rendering optimizations on Android and iOS.

• Standardized API contracts and led code reviews across a 6-person team, catching integration defects pre-merge and reducing post-release bug reports by 40% over the internship period.

• Researched and compared SQL vs NoSQL trade-offs for a home automation backend, producing a documented architecture proposal that the team adopted, cutting estimated future service integration time by 2 weeks.

Education

Master's in Computer Software Engineering

San Jose State University

Aug 2024 – May 2026 · San Jose, CA

Focused on systems software engineering, cloud technologies, distributed systems, and scalable system design. Coursework in advanced algorithms, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML applications.

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Jul 2018 – Jul 2022 · Pune, India

Comprehensive study of data structures, algorithms, web development, and database systems with a strong foundation in computer engineering principles. Coursework in OOP, cloud computing, and database management.