The latest articles on DEV Community by Sai Phanindra Manikanta Yalamanchili (@sai_yalamanchili). https://dev.to/sai_yalamanchili https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4001413%2F948122a1-69b0-4246-b805-6a0d6475ebef.jpg https://dev.to/sai_yalamanchili en Sai Phanindra Manikanta Yalamanchili Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:54:55 +0000 https://dev.to/sai_yalamanchili/hello-dev-my-first-post-and-a-quick-intro-fda https://dev.to/sai_yalamanchili/hello-dev-my-first-post-and-a-quick-intro-fda <p>Hi everyone, and welcome to my first post on DEV! 👋</p> <p>I'm Sai, a Software Engineer and Data Engineer based in Florida. I recently finished my MS in Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, and these days I spend most of my time building backend services, data pipelines, and AI-powered systems.</p> <h2> A bit about what I do </h2> <p>My day-to-day work lives mostly in the backend and cloud world. I enjoy designing scalable REST APIs, building and optimizing data pipelines, and wiring up cloud infrastructure on AWS. My main tools are Python, Node.js, and a growing collection of AWS services (Lambda, S3, Glue, API Gateway, and friends).</p> <p>More recently I've been going deep on AI engineering: LLM workflows, RAG, evaluations, and autonomous agents. I'm also a co-founder of Trenith, a remote-first software and AI engineering studio, where a lot of these ideas get to meet real production systems.</p> <h2> What I plan to write about </h2> <p>Here are some of the topics I'd love to share as I go:</p> <ul> <li>Building reliable data pipelines and ETL workflows</li> <li>Backend and API design lessons learned the hard way</li> <li>Practical AI engineering: LLM integrations, RAG, and agents</li> <li>Cloud infrastructure tips on AWS</li> </ul> <h2> Say hi! </h2> <p>I'm a big believer in learning in public, so I'd love to connect with others who are building in these spaces. If you're working on something in backend, data, or AI, drop a comment, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.</p> <p>Thanks for reading, and see you in the next post! 🚀</p> introduction beginners career