About

Suraj Loungani is a Software Engineer with a passion for AI, Math, Philosophy, Physics, Film, and Creating Art. He has 2.78 years of experience in the software development industry and is currently working as a Software Engineer at rephrase.ai. At rephrase.ai, Suraj made an MVP text-to-video app that produces continuous video output of any text transcript in real-time, which is a 25x speedup from the existing platform. He implemented an end-to-end streaming pipeline using Python multiprocessing to run on a single powerful machine with parallel stages, including obtaining audio binary, extracting speech features, video frame generation, and video streaming. Suraj also created a web-app and REST APIs for input and integrated webRTC, HLS, and RTMP protocols as choices for video output. He found performance bottlenecks by benchmarking all stages and maximized throughput of pipeline and GPU by using UNIX pipes and RAM for data sharing, minimizing disk access. Additionally, he implemented minor features and bug-fixes for APIs, monitoring, and orchestration of the existing text-to-video platform using Django, Celery, and Google Cloud. Previously, Suraj worked at Amazon as a Software Developer, where he managed the infrastructure of 3000+ Amazon services on the internal Cloud platform. He calculated hardware requirements and scheduled infrastructure scaling in advance of Amazon peak days, eliminating business-impacting errors and reducing manual hours. He redesigned the notification mechanism, added the option of sending secure e-mail instead of non-actionable tickets, and fetched and displayed DNS endpoints on the migration platform to migrate all traffic (1Mil+ transactions/sec) from external load-balancers to Native AWS infrastructure, saving millions of dollars. Suraj also onboarded all new infrastructure with correct permissions to new, Amazon-wide security protocol and worked with the security team to help migrate all existing permissions on infrastructure of 2K+ services. Suraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, which he completed in 2020. He also attended St. Xavier's School, Hansol, Ahmedabad, from 2002 to 2016. Suraj is proficient in various technologies, including Software Engineering, infra, AI, Python, Django, AWS, Web, CI/CD, SQL, Spring, test, Docker, Javascript, NoSQL, and Pytorch.