Software engineer / London
Atharva
Software engineer, drawn to the parts of a system you don't see.
Computer Science student at Brunel University London. I recently finished a placement year at Elanco Animal Health, building cloud video pipelines on GCP.
01About
I'm a Computer Science student at Brunel University of London, most interested in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure and data systems. I like knowing how the pieces fit together behind the screen, and the best way I've found to learn that is to build things.
My placement year at Elanco was on the R&D Vision Platform, working on GCP video-processing pipelines for large-scale computer vision. It's where “it works” became “it keeps working as the data and the users grow”, and I've been chasing that second part ever since.
Away from the keyboard
- Football
- Formula 1
- Golf
- Hiking
- Travel
- Financial markets
- Fashion
- DJing
- Learning Japanese
- Building PCs
02Experience
Jun 2025 – Jul 2026
Software Engineer
Elanco Animal Health / Hook, UK
- Architected and maintained GCP video-processing pipelines for large-scale computer vision workflows.
- Automated manual video-analysis workflows, cutting time-to-insight and human error.
- Built backend services and UI features for video lifecycle management and metadata orchestration.
- Contributed to system design decisions on scalability, performance and reliability.
Google Cloud · Terraform · Python · TypeScript
Jul 2024 – Oct 2024
Software Engineering Fellow
Headstarter AI / New York, USA
- Built 5 AI apps and APIs with Next.js, OpenAI, Pinecone and the Stripe API.
- Coached by engineers from Amazon, Bloomberg and Capital One on Agile, CI/CD, Git and microservice patterns.
- Led a team of 4 fellows across 3 global hackathons.
Next.js · OpenAI · Pinecone · Stripe API
03Projects
- 01Open source · MIT2026
Homeport
Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible API for local LLMs
Run a model on your own computer and use it from anywhere with a single URL. Homeport chains Ollama, LiteLLM and an optional Cloudflare Tunnel into an OpenAI-compatible endpoint that existing SDKs and chat tools work with unchanged. It's secure by default (an API key on every request, Ollama never exposed directly), needs no router port forwarding, and one start script generates the key and prints the URL.
Ollama · LiteLLM · Cloudflare Tunnel · PowerShell · Bash
- 022026
portfolio-terminal
A portfolio you connect to over SSH
Run ssh ssh.athxrvc.co.uk and you get a keyboard-driven Textual app instead of a web page. Each connection gets its own sandboxed pseudo-terminal behind an AsyncSSH server, with no shell, exec or file transfer exposed. Content lives in TOML files, and it runs on a VPS under systemd.
Python · AsyncSSH · Textual · TOML
- 032026
openclaw-discord
A Discord assistant with long-term memory
A self-hosted bot that answers in enabled channels using Google AI Studio, OpenAI or Anthropic models. Recent messages give it short-term context, and older conversation is summarised into long-term memory in PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL, provisioned with Terraform). Channels have their own modes, and admins toggle the AI per channel.
Python · PostgreSQL · Prisma · Terraform · GCP
Earlier & smaller
- readme-genAI-powered README generation as a VS Code extension.2026
- Currency ConverterConvert between currencies using live exchange rates. live2024
- SwiftBotJava on a Raspberry Pi robot that scans QR codes and draws the shape they name.2024
04Stack
- Languages
- Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript
- Cloud & infra
- Google Cloud, Terraform, Linux
- Backend & data
- Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Web
- React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
- AI tooling
- Ollama, LiteLLM, OpenAI API, Pinecone