Sachin Selvakumar
Returning Intern · Verizon · Summer 2026

Sachin
Selvakumar

Cloud Engineer & Software Developer

CS student at UT Dallas building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and products that scale. WayUp × Yello 2025 Top 100 Intern.

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Experience

Where I've Worked

Verizon
Cloud Engineering Intern
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
  • Architected a monitoring system using Python and Grafana to resolve 5GC issues 30% faster.
  • Engineered a full-stack automation system on GCP saving the company $50,000 annually.
  • Containerized microservices using Docker, ensuring 100% availability of 5G services.
  • Boosted cost-efficiency by 15% by forecasting 5G traffic and load to optimize infrastructure capacity.
Snapback Sports
Team Lead & Software Engineer
Feb 2025 – Jun 2025
  • Led design, build, and launch of a mobile app for a sports media brand with 5M+ followers.
  • Peaked at #23 on the App Store, generating 22,000 downloads and 13,000 monthly active users.
  • Improved retention by 20% through data-driven feature iterations and user engagement analysis.
  • Engineered a cross-platform app in React Native, shipping simultaneously to iOS & Android.
Kappa Theta Pi — UTD
Director of Technology
2025
  • Directed all technical initiatives for 50+ members, managing a team of two directors for the chapter website and internal platforms.
  • Increased member interview readiness by 40% through weekly DSA and LeetCode-style workshops.
  • Trained 40+ students in full-stack engineering via 15+ workshops on Git, cloud infrastructure, and DSA.

Projects

Things I've Built

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Enterprise AI Agent Platform

5-microservice Spring Boot platform with API gateway routing JWT-verified requests across 8 Docker containers. Real-time Gemini AI chat with token-by-token SSE streaming, 3-tier RBAC (ADMIN / DEVELOPER / VIEWER), and a Kafka event pipeline persisting to 4 PostgreSQL schemas with Redis analytics cache. Validated by a 29-assertion automated E2E test suite.

Java Spring Boot Gemini API Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Docker React JWT
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Search Recommendation Engine

Distributed system decoupling event ingestion from score computation via isolated Kafka producer/consumer services. Event-driven search ranking processing click signals into personalized recommendations with sub-millisecond Redis caching. Atomic upsert scoring in PostgreSQL with guaranteed at-least-once delivery and zero data loss. Containerized 5-service architecture with distributed tracing and a 15-assertion E2E test suite.

Java Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL Redis Docker FastAPI

Skills

What I Work With

Languages
Python Java C++ SQL
Frameworks
Spring Boot React React Native FastAPI Pandas
Infrastructure
Docker Kubernetes GCP Kafka Redis CI/CD
Databases & Tools
PostgreSQL MySQL Grafana GitHub Linux

Education

Academic Background

The University of Texas at Dallas
B.S. in Computer Science
Aug 2024 – May 2028
GPA 3.7 / 4.0
WayUp × Yello 2025 Top 100 Intern Nationwide Academic Success Scholar
Coursework
Data Structures & Algorithms Software Engineering Computer Architecture Unix Discrete Math

Contact

Let's Connect

Whether it's an internship, a project, or just a conversation — my inbox is open.

sxs230344@utdallas.edu