Engineering
Systems that hold up under load: real-time pipelines, cached grids, background workers and tests that catch regressions before users do.
- Full-stack delivery
- Real-time & async systems
- Automated testing
Hyderabad, India · Open to software engineering roles
Building software that solves real problems.
I'm Jesica Michel, a Computer Science Engineering graduate and software engineer in Hyderabad, India. I work across the stack — data-dense front ends, REST and real-time back ends, and the tests and documentation that keep them honest.
ReactVue.jsDjango RESTWebSocketsNode.js
About
More than code
Engineering is the craft, but the point is the outcome. Three things shape how I work.
Product Thinking
I start from the user's actual problem, then work backwards to the smallest architecture that solves it well.
- Requirement framing
- Trade-off analysis
- Iterative scoping
Collaboration
Cross-timezone teams, written clarity and documentation that lets the next engineer move fast without asking.
- Distributed teamwork
- Documentation
- Design reviews
Experience
Where I've shipped
Two internships, both in real products with real users. Expand a card for the technical detail.
Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
India / Burbank, CA
Software Engineering Intern
Revolution Entertainment Services · TrueBudget
Built and hardened features for TrueBudget, a production film & television budgeting platform used by entertainment finance teams.
Vue.jsAG GridDjango REST FrameworkWebSocketsRedisIndexedDBPlaywrightAWS
- Developed high-density budgeting grids in Vue.js with AG Grid, supporting thousands of editable rows with column virtualisation and inline validation.
- Implemented Django REST Framework endpoints with serializer-level validation and pagination for large budget datasets.
- Added WebSocket channels so collaborators see budget line changes propagate live, with Redis as the pub/sub and cache layer.
- Used IndexedDB for offline-tolerant local state so in-progress edits survive reconnects and page reloads.
- Wrote Playwright end-to-end suites covering critical budgeting flows, cutting manual regression passes.
- Worked across an India / Burbank timezone split with async standups, written specs and reviewed PRs.
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Vue + AG Grid
Editable budget grid, virtualised rows
- 02
IndexedDB
Local buffer for offline-tolerant edits
- 03
DRF API
Validation, pagination, persistence
- 04
Redis + WS
Pub/sub fan-out to collaborators
- 05
Playwright / AWS
E2E coverage, cloud deployment
May 2025 – Jul 2025
T-Hub, Hyderabad
Project Intern
Talent Farm AI · Learnora AI Learning Platform
Built the content recommendation workflow behind Learnora, an AI learning platform that maps a learner's intent to the right material.
PythonFlaskFAISSHugging FaceYouTube Data APINLP
Visit live site
Hosted website — check it out, deployed on Netlify
Featured project
PagerSlack — Full-stack incident management & real-time team communication
An on-call platform that merges incident escalation with team chat: alerts are raised, routed, escalated on timers and resolved in the same place the team is already talking.
MongoDBExpressReactNode.jsSocket.IOJWT (httpOnly cookies)PlaywrightSwagger
Real-time messaging
Socket.IO rooms per channel and per incident, with presence and typing state kept in sync across clients.
Escalation worker
A background worker polls unacknowledged incidents and escalates through the on-call chain on configurable timers.
Secure auth
JWT sessions stored in httpOnly cookies with refresh handling, so tokens never sit in browser storage.
Tested & documented
Playwright E2E covers login, incident creation, acknowledgement and escalation. Swagger documents every REST endpoint.
Client
React SPASocket.IO clientIncident console
API
Express RESTJWT cookie authSwagger docs
Realtime
Socket.IO serverChannel & incident roomsPresence
Workers
Escalation pollerTimer policiesNotification dispatch
Data
MongoDBIncidents & messagesOn-call schedules
- 01
Alert raised
Incident created via API or console
- 02
Routed
Matched to on-call rota and channel
- 03
Acknowledged?
Timer starts on delivery
- 04
Escalated
Worker promotes to next responder
- 05
Resolved
Timeline archived with full context
Leadership
Leadership & campus experience
Roles where the work was coordination, documentation and getting large events across the line.
Student Life Associate
Ace Award 2025GITAM University
Ran student engagement programmes and coordinated across departments to deliver campus-wide events end to end.
Head of Documentation
Sports & NCC
Owned records, reports and event documentation for sports and NCC activities, keeping a reliable institutional archive.
Innovation Center — Technical Team
GITAM University
Supported and competed in national technical events, handling logistics, judging support and participant technical help.
SIH 2023G-Hack 2023Tech Thrive 2024Techfest 2023, IIT Bombay
Skills
Technical skills
Grouped by where they sit in the stack. Hover a card for how I use them.
Programming
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaCSQL
Comfortable moving between typed and dynamic codebases.
Frontend
ReactVue.jsAG GridTailwind CSSHTML5CSS3
Data-dense interfaces, component systems, accessible markup.
Backend
Node.jsExpressDjango REST FrameworkFlaskREST APIs
API design, validation layers, auth and pagination.
Databases
MongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLRedisIndexedDB
Schema design, indexing and client-side persistence.
Real-Time & Systems
WebSocketsSocket.IORedis pub/subBackground workersCaching
Event fan-out, escalation timers and offline-tolerant state.
Testing & Dev
PlaywrightJestPostmanSwaggerGitGitHub
E2E coverage of critical flows and documented APIs.
Cloud & DevOps
AWSGoogle CloudCI basicsDocker basicsLinux
Deploying and operating small production services.
AI / ML Exposure
FAISSHugging FaceEmbeddingsNLP pipelinesVertex AI
Retrieval workflows and applied model integration.
Product & Professional
Requirement analysisTechnical writingAsync collaborationDocumentationMentoring
Clear written communication across timezones.
Method
How I approach problems
The same four steps, whether it's a bug ticket or a new subsystem.
Understand
Get to the real problem behind the request. Who is blocked, how often, and what does success actually look like?
Break Down
Split it into pieces that can be reasoned about alone — data shape, states, edge cases and failure modes.
Build
Ship the smallest correct version first, with readable code and boundaries that leave room to extend.
Validate
Test the critical paths, measure against the original problem, then iterate with real feedback.
Background
Education & certifications
Education
GITAM University
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering (IoT)
CGPA 7.93
Page Junior College
Intermediate — MPC
St. Ann's High School
Secondary Education
Certifications
- Google Cloud — Generative AI
- Google Cloud — Vertex AI
- Mobile Application Development
Value
What I bring
Six things a team gets on day one.
Production mindset
I've shipped into a live platform used by finance teams — validation, edge cases and regressions are part of the job, not an afterthought.
Real-time systems
WebSockets, Redis pub/sub, background escalation workers and offline-tolerant client state.
Full-stack range
Vue and React on the front, Django REST and Express behind, with the database and cache layers in between.
Testing discipline
Playwright suites over the flows that matter, so releases don't rely on manual clicking.
Clear communication
Written specs, documented APIs and async updates that work across a 12-hour timezone gap.
Fast ramp-up
New stacks, unfamiliar codebases and ambiguous briefs — I get productive quickly and ask sharp questions.
Contact
Let's build something that matters
Open to software engineering roles and interesting problems. The fastest way to reach me is email.