Baalateja Kataru
Resident Technical Wizard (RTW) at Dirmacs Global Services
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolBaalateja Kataru is a polyglot systems engineer and autodidact with eight years of experience building high-performance software, AI systems, and robotics for startups and enterprise clients. From computational physics and neutrino phenomenology to shipping agentic AI workflows and low-latency observability tools, he bridges scientific rigor with production-grade engineering across Rust, Go, Python, Zig and modern web stacks. He has co-founded an AgTech robotics startup, led full-stack and AI integrations at Dirmacs, and shipped low-overhead Rust tooling and real-time log viewers that emphasize sub-millisecond performance. Equally comfortable designing multi-agent orchestration, RAG/chat systems, and embedded inference pipelines, he favors safety, speed, and pragmatic devtooling. A lifelong tinkerer who started as a game scripter/modder, he combines deep theoretical interests (quantum computing, numerical methods, compilers) with hands-on delivery.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Participant, IISER Tirupati’s Summer Course on Quantum Computing, Participant, IISER Tirupati’s Summer Course on Quantum Computing at IISER TirupatiHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Oakridge International School10th Certification, ICSE, 89.6%, 10th Certification, ICSE, 89.6% at Ryan International School, Kundalahalli, BangaloreB.Sc. (Hons.), Physics with a concentration in Mathematics, CGPA - 8.2/10, B.Sc. (Hons.), Physics with a concentration in Mathematics, CGPA - 8.2/10 at Krea UniversityParticipant, IIRS-ISRO START Summer Program 2024, Participant, IIRS-ISRO START Summer Program 2024 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)Indian Institute of Technology MadrasParticipant, Qiskit Global Summer School 2023, Participant, Qiskit Global Summer School 2023 at IBM Quantum
English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Spanish
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Github Skills (138)
cnn-keras10
classifier10
strip10
convolutional-neural-networks10
galaxy10
transfer-learning10
rust10
classification10
mobilenet10
astrophotography10
classification-model10
astronomical-algorithms10
jython9
currency9
lfsr9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bkataru/fake-currency-identification
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Uses retrained MobileNetV2 classification models to determine whether an Indian currency note is fake or real (based on watermark and fluorescent strip)
Contributions:9 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
stripfake-currencytensorflowvgg16determine
BK-Modding/galaxy-classifier
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
A image classifier that classifies whether a galaxy is spiral, elliptical, or irregular. Built using Tensorflow v2 and Google's inception v3 model.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythonclassifiertensorflowastrometryastrophotography
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