Siddartha Reddy

AI Software Engineer · Cincinnati, Ohio

SIDDARTHA REDDY

Production AI systems, and the eyes of autonomous robots.

Curious by default, calm under load. I build production AI systems, from LLM agents to the eyes of an aircraft-towing robot.

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About

I build production AI systems.

Currently: perception for GroundWatch at Airtrek Robotics

AI software engineer at Airtrek Robotics, on the computer vision and LiDAR perception behind GroundWatch, the autonomous wingwalking robots that work alongside ground crews around live aircraft. Before that I shipped software at DXC Technology, Tata Consultancy Services and UC Digital Technology Solutions. Three and a half years in, every system I have built has gone to production. Since September 2026 I write a daily note on AI on X and LinkedIn: the news, the new tools, and what they actually mean.

GroundWatch on the apron at Pentastar Aviation, 2026. The robots I build perception for.Video: Airtrek Robotics, via LinkedIn
AI & agentsPython · PyTorch · LangGraph · RAG · MCP · Claude API · OpenAI API · Hugging Face · Fine-tuning · LLM evals · Whisper · pgvector
Robotics & perceptionROS 2 · C++ · Computer vision · OpenCV · LiDAR · Point-cloud registration · SLAM · Camera–LiDAR calibration · Sensor fusion · Open3D · CUDA
BackendFastAPI · Node.js · Spring Boot · REST · gRPC · Microservices · Kafka · Redis · OAuth / JWT
DataPostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · SQL · pandas · Spark · dbt · Airflow · ETL pipelines
FrontendReact · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS
Cloud & opsAWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Vercel · MLflow

Experience

Four teams, four scales.

  1. Jun 2026 — Present

    AI Software Engineer

    Airtrek Robotics · Cincinnati, Ohio · On-site

    Perception engineer on GroundWatch, autonomous wingwalking robots that work alongside line technicians during aircraft ground movements.

    • Build computer vision and LiDAR perception for safety-critical operations around live aircraft.
    • Work the perception problems that only surface in the real environment: real aircraft, real ground crews, edge cases no test set produces.
    • Supporting GroundWatch as it moves into live FBO operations with Pentastar Aviation.

    Computer vision · LiDAR · Python · ROS 2 · Robotics

  2. Jun 2025 — Jun 2026

    Software Engineer

    DXC Technology · Remote

    Full-stack services with LLM integration for enterprise clients, deployed on AWS. Joined as an intern in June 2025 and converted to full-time in January 2026.

    • Built full-stack applications with Python and Node.js backends and React frontends, integrating the Claude and OpenAI APIs.
    • Designed the REST services and PostgreSQL/MySQL schemas, and built the test suite that took coverage to 85%.
    • Owned deployment on AWS with Docker and CI/CD, keeping the services at 99% uptime.

    Python · Node.js · React · PostgreSQL · AWS · Docker · Claude API

  3. Sep 2024 — May 2025

    Full Stack Engineer

    University of Cincinnati · DTS · Cincinnati, Ohio

    Full-stack web applications for the University under the Digital Technology Solutions program, in an Agile team.

    • Developed full-stack applications with documented REST APIs backed by PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
    • Optimised SQL queries for measurable performance gains on the University's internal tools.
    • Shipped in an Agile team, reviewing code and adding test coverage for every new service.

    React · Node.js · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · REST API · Agile

  4. Jan 2023 — Jul 2024

    Software Engineer

    Tata Consultancy Services · Hyderabad, India · Hybrid

    Enterprise software and microservices for Fortune 500 clients, focused on backend architecture and database performance.

    • Shipped four production systems and microservices for Fortune 500 clients' enterprise operations.
    • Designed the REST layer and tuned PostgreSQL and MySQL at scale for significant query speedups.
    • Worked in Agile sprints with cross-functional client teams, applying design patterns across the codebase.

    Python · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Microservices · REST API · Docker

Selected work

Mission log.

  1. 01

    PayerLine

    2026    A voice agent that verifies insurance benefits: it calls a simulated payer, works an eligibility checklist, catches the representative's mistakes and hands the EHR clean, structured data.Python · Gradio · LLM agents · Speech · Hugging FaceRead moreSource
  2. 02

    Ohio Credit Intelligence

    2025    Production-style AI credit-risk scoring for regional banks: automated loan decisions, SHAP explainability and ECOA-compliant adverse-action notices on a full data and MLOps stack.Python · FastAPI · LightGBM · SHAP · MLflow · dbtRead moreSource
  3. 03

    FinCore AI

    2025    Personal-finance platform built as microservices: three backend services over Kafka, a LangGraph RAG agent that answers questions about your spending, and a UI that makes the AI internals visible.Next.js 14 · TypeScript · FastAPI · Spring Boot · LangGraph · Claude APIRead moreSource
  4. 04

    Kisaan AI

    2025    Autonomous multimodal farm intelligence for Indian smallholder farmers: crop-disease diagnosis, live mandi prices, scheme guidance, soil analysis and multilingual voice advisory via web or WhatsApp.Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · Claude API · HuggingFace · MobileNetV2Read moreSource
  5. 05

    Ohio Real Estate Intelligence

    2025    End-to-end data engineering and ML platform analysing Ohio's housing market across all 88 counties: live data, four trained models and an automated monthly pipeline.Python · React 19 · TypeScript · DuckDB · XGBoost · ProphetRead moreLive Source
  6. 06

    TalentAI

    2024    AI interview-preparation platform: resume analysis, job-description matching, voice interview practice, cover-letter generation and skill-gap planning.React 18 · FastAPI · Python · spaCy · scikit-learn · PostgreSQLRead moreLive Source
+ 5 more missions
  1. 07

    CinciTech

    2026    A free, auto-updating board of software, data, ML and cloud jobs across Ohio, pulled from 130+ company career pages and staffing firms every three hours and filtered to Ohio and remote.Python · GitHub Actions · GitHub Pages · ScrapingRead moreLive Source
  2. 08

    StaffingBuddy

    2026    A free feed of contract IT roles from 16+ staffing firms and IT vendors, refreshed every three hours, each role shown once with a direct apply link.Python · GitHub Actions · GitHub PagesRead moreLive Source
  3. 09

    Hybrid e-commerce recommender

    2025    A production-style recommender blending ALS collaborative filtering with content similarity, MMR re-ranking for diversity and a popularity fallback for cold starts, with one-click offline evaluation.Python · Streamlit · scikit-learn · implicit · pandasRead moreLive Source
  4. 10

    JobsBuddy

    2024    A visa-sponsoring tech-job board for international students: a free Python scraper that surfaces only US, OPT-friendly, early-career roles at companies with real H-1B sponsorship history.Python · GitHub Actions · HTML5 · JavaScript · GitHub PagesRead moreLive Source
  5. 11

    Expense Tracker

    2024    Full-stack expense tracking with a React front end and a Python backend: income, expenses and budgets in a clean responsive UI.React · JavaScript · Python · REST API · CSS · DockerRead moreSource

Writing

Daily dispatches.

Since September 9, 2026 I post a note on AI every day on LinkedIn and X: the news, the new tools, and what they actually mean. 7 posts so far, each one linked below.

  1. Sep 11, 2026LinkedInStatic benchmarks tell you how good an agent is on attempt one. But real deployments are never attempt one, they're a loop: user corrects, agent…Read on LinkedIn
  2. Sep 11, 2026XWhile Altman talks about slowing AI down, Beijing's Z.AI just raised $5B in Hong Kong — $2B in shares plus $3B in bonds, per Reuters.Read on X
  3. Sep 11, 2026LinkedInOpenAI just shipped a Wall Street-only ChatGPT, and its own pitch should worry junior bankers more than it reassures them.Read on LinkedIn
  4. Sep 11, 2026XPer Bloomberg via Reuters: said at a company-wide meeting this week, amid safety warnings and incidents of models escaping control.Read on X
  5. Sep 11, 2026XSam Altman told OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development — and pacing releases alongside other labs.Read on X
  6. Sep 10, 2026LinkedInAn AI just solved a math problem humans couldn't crack in 90 years. It took 88 hours. Then the mathematicians got furious.Read on LinkedIn
  7. Sep 9, 2026LinkedInJust started using Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent, and it genuinely feels different from anything I've tried before. It's not another chatbot.Read on LinkedIn
+ 7 earlier posts
  1. Aug 20, 2026LinkedInGreat milestone for the team Airtrek Robotics. Working on the perception side at AirTrek, the thing I've come to appreciate most is how much the real…Read on LinkedIn
  2. May 23, 2026LinkedIn🗞️ Day 3 of my AI Daily Digest - and today's stories are wild. 1/ Anthropic just became profitable.Read on LinkedIn
  3. May 22, 2026LinkedIn🤖 AI moved fast in the last 24 hours. Here's what you need to know: 1/ Washington fumbled - Silicon Valley killed a 90-day government AI review…Read on LinkedIn
  4. May 21, 2026LinkedInAI is no longer just answering our questions-it’s starting to work for us while we sleep.Read on LinkedIn
  5. May 21, 2026LinkedIn🧠 AI is no longer just a software story - it's a capital story. I put together a digest of the 5 biggest AI moves from the last 24 hours, and they…Read on LinkedIn
  6. May 18, 2026LinkedInBuilt something I'm genuinely proud of. Ohio has 88 counties. Every single one has a story to tell about its housing market - prices rising, falling,…Read on LinkedIn
  7. May 6, 2026LinkedIn🎉 Excited to share my latest project: VYBE - A Personal Finance Expense Tracker!Read on LinkedIn

Education

University of Cincinnati.

2024 — 2026

MEng in Computer Science

University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, Ohio · GPA 3.6 / 4.0

Graduate research building full-stack applications for the University under the DTS program, applying ML coursework to production projects such as the Ohio Real Estate Intelligence platform.

Relevant coursework

Machine Learning · Distributed Systems · Database Systems · Software Engineering · Data Structures & Algorithms · Cloud Computing · Natural Language Processing

Contact

Let's talk.

Open to AI engineering roles in Cincinnati, hybrid or remote. If you are building in AI or hiring for it, send a message or reach me directly.