Sumedh Bhattacharya
Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents) at Benchling
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSumedh Bhattacharya is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI agents with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade software across startups and tech giants. He blends a rigorous EECS education from UC Berkeley with hands-on expertise in TypeScript, React, Java, C#, Python, TensorFlow/Keras, and Azure to deliver solutions that balance engineering robustness, business efficiency, and customer success. At Benchling he progressed from notebook engineering to leading AI agents work, and previously contributed backend refactors to Microsoft’s widely used Fluid Framework—improving server-side infrastructure and aligning project terminology. Comfortable in both research-adjacent ML stacks and large-scale collaboration systems, he brings a consultative mindset from engagements with Fortune 500 clients and a knack for turning complex technical trade-offs into practical, impactful products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Mission San Jose High School
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
refactoring10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
nodejs9
configuration-management9
javascript8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:370 reviews, 197 commits, 271 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Sumedh primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the server-side code, specifically related to the configuration and internal structure of the Tinylicious server. Their work included consolidating configurations and refactoring memory orderer functionalities. Furthermore, the user removed references to the term "chaincode" throughout the codebase and replaced it with the more appropriate terminology, signifying an effort to align the codebase with evolving project vocabulary. They made code changes to server-side infrastructure.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
sumedhb1995/FluidFramework-1
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:1 PR, 315 pushes, 139 branches in 1 year 4 months
distributedstream-processingweb-applicationswebsocketcollaborative
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.