Amirthesh, Amirtheshwaran Navaneethakrishnan. Software engineer and game developer, MS Computer Science at UNC Charlotte.

I go by Amir. The full name is Amirtheshwaran Navaneethakrishnan. It doesn't fit on badges, so most things I make ship under a shorter name.

I'm doing my MS in Computer Science at UNC Charlotte, graduating May 2027, with a focus on backend systems and software that has to hold up under real load. Before that I did a BTech in AI & ML from SRM IST Chennai, first class with distinction. In between there was an internship at Drata IT Solutions building Python APIs. 8 endpoints, three third party integrations, and a long tail of backend bugs that taught me more than the endpoints did. I went back to Drata this past summer, June to August 2026, as a Cloud Infrastructure Intern, this time on the other side of the deploy: workloads on GKE and Cloud Run, Terraform for the infrastructure, and the CI/CD that ships it.

Most of what I build is full stack: a Java or Python service underneath, a React front end on top, deployed on AWS or Firebase depending on what the project needs. I've shipped 15+ of these, from social apps to ML pipelines to computer vision, and I'd rather ship something smaller that stays up under real users than something bigger that only survives a demo. Still learning something new with most of what I build.

Games are the other half of it. Unity and GameMaker mostly, solo or in small teams, and right now that's Service, a first-person horror game I'm building alone. That work lives on its own site, the game dev portfolio, since it wants a different shelf than the backend work.

// currently: SDE and game dev roles, high-impact teams