00 / Cold Open
Hi, I'm
Maruvada Shanmukha Sriram
You can call me Shannu · Senior AI Engineer
Everyone's a character study. I just take notes on myself too.
Hyderabad. Usually Running One Workstream Too Many.
// for the ones who want the stack before they want me
I don't trust hype, including my own. If it works, it ships quietly. If it doesn't, it waits in stash.
// how the work actually happens
Systems and narrative are the same discipline. I draw them on the same sheet of paper before I trust either.
01 / The Work
Built At Antz →// the ownership arc
LMS inherited, ran solo → Satya built, handed off → ARIA self-started, filled an org gap → PMAG inherited, rebuilt after review
PMAG
An agent that chases people for status updates so I don't have to. Rebuilt from scratch in a weekend, because the old plan didn't survive review.
Chat-Native Agent · Teams Follow-Ups · Azure DevOps · In Production
- Python
- FastAPI
- Agno
- Next.js
- Celery
- Redis
- Postgres
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ARIA
An internal IT platform, built to replace the spreadsheet that had quietly become everyone's problem and nobody's job.
Assets · Tickets · Password Vault · Budget · Entra SSO · Phased Rollout, Live
- React
- FastAPI
- Azure SQL
- Entra ID
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Satya
A medical AI assistant on both app stores. I shipped the whole thing, then handed it off — the healthiest ending a project gets.
App Store · Play Store, Approved First Attempt · Full Feature Set Live · Paid Tier
- React Native
- FastAPI
- LLM
- Voice
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LMS
A lease management platform for a US property firm. Built v1.0 with the team, led v1.5 solo, v2.0 is under discussion.
Lease Management Platform · v1.0 Shipped · v1.5 Led Solo · v2.0 In Discussion
- FastAPI
- React
- SQL Server
- Entra ID
- Azure Pipelines
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02 / The Operating System
- Paper Flowcharts First
- Systems And Narrative, Simultaneously
- Anti-Hype: Ship, Then Talk
- Substance Over Performance
The diagram up top is not decoration. It's the actual order I work in: sketch the problem on paper, split it into the system and the story it serves, build, and only talk about it once it's real.
Everything else is downstream of that. Ship quietly, keep the promise before the announcement, and let the work argue for itself.
03 / Off-Screen
The Rides
Motorcycling, mostly the routes nobody plans a group trip around. I come back with a sore back and a settled head, in that order.
The Writing
Story concepts, structured like they're going somewhere even when they aren't. A few have outlines longer than the stories will ever be.
The Podcast
Telugu cinema, argued about weekly with my cousin. The audio is bad and neither of us is doing anything about it.
The Reading
Philosophy, the kind that picks a fight and won't let go. I annotate in the margins and lose the argument again in the shower a week later.