Srikar Yadhunandan

Software engineer building production AI and backend systems. I work across low-latency APIs, durable workflows, retrieval infrastructure, and data pipelines, with a biotechnology background that helps when software meets scientific data.

Based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Projects
Backend / Platform Engineering
RunBridge

Preflight, approval, and audit control plane for scientific workflows

RunBridge architecture from immutable run intent through preflight, approval policy, execution, and audit persistence

A Go control plane for expensive workflows that validates run intent, evaluates deterministic policy, and binds reviewer decisions to exact immutable specifications before execution.

Backend / Distributed Systems
Durable Workflow Engine

Durable Go workflow engine with idempotency and crash recovery

Durable Workflow Engine architecture connecting workflow definitions, Redis Streams, Go workers, and a PostgreSQL event log

A distributed-systems project built around exactly-once step execution, retries, saga compensation, Redis Streams, and event-backed recovery after worker crashes.

Scientific Infrastructure
Biolab

Auditable API and MCP infrastructure for agent-facing retrieval

BioLab MCP Server architecture connecting AI assistants, scientific APIs, and a hash-chained Turso audit store

A Python and Go MCP service for agent-facing scientific retrieval that preserves verbatim source payloads and hash-chains each retrieval to the preceding audit record.

AI / Scientific Systems
Concordia Colony

Auditable agent workflows for scientific evidence

Concordia Colony architecture connecting sequence context, bounded scientist agents, validated tools, and an evidence graph

A local-first AI system that traces generated claims through a durable workflow, bounded scientist agents, deterministic verification, and a content-addressed evidence graph.

Data / ML Systems
GlucoPulse

Reliable glucose forecasting from streaming sensor data

GlucoPulse architecture from continuous glucose readings through Kafka validation and feature pipelines to ONNX forecasts

A fault-tolerant data and ML pipeline that validates continuous-glucose-monitor readings, trains a Temporal Fusion Transformer, and serves 30- and 60-minute forecasts through FastAPI and ONNX Runtime.

Bioinformatics / ML Evaluation
CellForge

A reliability-aware trust layer between perturbation screens and experimental decisions

CellForge architecture from validated perturbation data through unseen-perturbation splits and baselines to reliability-gated trust records

A Python benchmarking harness for single-cell perturbation models that validates datasets, builds unseen-perturbation splits, scores models against strong baselines, and grades every prediction by how reliable the underlying measurement is.

Experience
Feb. 2026 — Present

Data Scientist Fellow

Serverless data and AI systems

Chicago Education Advocacy Cooperative

Deployed an EventBridge-triggered AWS Lambda and FastAPI pipeline across 20+ sources, saving 2 hours 40 minutes per newsletter cycle and reducing repeated Llama 3 calls by 40%.

Jan. 2024 — Jul. 2024

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Scientific retrieval and model adaptation

Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad

Built LipidOS with a six-person research team, expanding usable lipid assignments from 99 to 699 and delivering BGE/SPECTER2 retrieval over 12,563 text chunks and 1,058 spectral records.

Sep. 2022 — Dec. 2023

Software Engineer

Backend and data infrastructure

Gutslane Precitech

Reduced p95 API latency from 8 seconds to 200 milliseconds and built Airflow pipelines processing 10,000+ daily records, reclaiming more than 8 analyst hours per week.

Certifications

Biomedical Data Science Using Python Program

OmicsLogic Inc.

May 2023 · View credential ↗
Publication

Integrating Explainable AI for Energy Efficient Open Radio Access Networks

Srikar Yadhunandan · IEEE FNWF 2024 · Explainable AI for interpreting energy-efficiency behavior in Open RAN systems · DOI: 10.1109/FNWF63303.2024.11028856

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