Rithin Chalumuri
Co-Founder & CTO at Vela (formerly Reewild)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRithin Chalumuri is a founder-CTO and software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native platforms, ML-enabled services, and DevSecOps tooling across startups and scale-ups. As Co-Founder & CTO of Vela, he’s architecting rewards infrastructure that drives loyalty while nudging sustainable, low-carbon consumer choices. He blends hands-on system design, automation, and ML experience (from research-grade genetic algorithms to deployed PyTorch models) with practical cloud expertise across AWS and Azure to ship reliable production systems. Previously he led platform engineering and productivity improvements at Pinewood.AI and contributed data-product engineering at TrueLayer, often stepping into first-line leadership and mentorship roles. Curious and research-minded, he’s comfortable moving from algorithmic prototypes to hardened infrastructure, and he prioritises measurable impact when solving real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GCE A-Levels, GCE A-Levels at Sancta Maria International School, HyderabadMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at University of BathCambridge IGCSE International Baccalaureate - Middle Years Programme, Cambridge IGCSE International Baccalaureate - Middle Years Programme at Gandhi Memorial International School, JakartaBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Coventry University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Indonesian
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Github Skills (68)
rest-api10
docker-compose10
compose10
rabbitmq10
nodejs10
mongodb10
docker10
boilerplate10
koa10
genetic-algorithm9
genetic9
python9
redis9
event-driven9
metaheuristics8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rithinch/serverless-backend-example
Jan 2019 - May 2021
:airplane: API Backend for an aircraft maintenance application; allowing to manage flight maintenance history and engineering teams. Used Azure Functions and Azure Pipelines for CI/CD.
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 4 months
flightengineeringmongodb-driveraircraftazure-functions
rithinch/.netcore-web-api-example
May 2021 - Nov 2024
👾 Simple REST API implementation using .NET 5, clean architecture principles, and Docker containers.
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
dockerdotnet-coredotnet5refitrest-api
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