Senior Software Engineer · Austin, Texas

Praveen Kumar Nelli

I build backend platforms, distributed systems, and AI-assisted workflows. Across 14+ years at Meta, IBM, TCS, and Veenworks, I’ve taken projects from architecture through rollout and production support.

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Selected engineering work

Meta · Technical Lead · Applied AI and production rollout

Decision support for content reviewers

I originated and led a cross-functional effort to give reviewers relevant policy guidance directly in their workflow. I designed the hybrid architecture and built the preprocessing pipeline that ranked policy and questionnaire suggestions before reviewers opened a case.

  1. Use deterministic matching to narrow the candidate set before model evaluation.
  2. Show suggestions only above an experimentally selected confidence threshold. Fall back to the standard workflow when confidence is low.
  3. Keep reviewers responsible for the final decision. Use an A/B test, monitoring, and a staged rollout to evaluate the change.

~80% → 95%Human-review accuracy for high-severity cases. The staged rollout reached approximately 12 teams.

~$7MProjected annual operating expense savings from contextual assistance.

IBM · Distributed systems

Cloud modernization for EDI processing

I rewrote five legacy processing modules as microservices for high-volume supply-chain document workloads. I designed processing services and APIs, led engineering for new regional environments, and supported customer migrations and disaster-recovery exercises.

Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · Couchbase · Cloud Object Store · Docker · Kubernetes · REST APIs

Veenworks · Product and engineering

ANVI, an AI-assisted operations platform

I founded and architected ANVI for independent real estate professionals and built an AI voice agent for inbound calls. I built the backend for lead capture, conversation processing, structured information extraction, and notifications. I designed workflow state and approval gates for customer communications and used realtor pilot feedback to refine the product.

AI agents · LLM integration · Workflow orchestration · Twilio · Grok · Vercel · Resend

Experience

Veenworks

Founder & Software Engineer · May 2025–present

Meta

Software Engineer · Jul 2022–Apr 2025

IBM

Software Engineer · Apr 2017–Jul 2022

Tata Consultancy Services

IT Analyst / Software Engineer · Dec 2011–Dec 2015
Led five developers delivering insurance software and owned core claims-system components.

Skills and education

Engineering

Java, Spring Boot, Python, SQL, JavaScript/React, REST APIs, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, testing, and observability

Applied AI

LLM integration, workflow orchestration, evaluation, and human approval controls

Education

M.S., Computer Science · University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.Tech., Computer Science · JNTU Kakinada