Harshini Bandaru

Decentralized Healthcare

Engineered a decentralized healthcare consulting web application leveraging React, Firebase Authentication, and Socket.io for secure, role-based access control and real-time, event-driven communication. Architected dynamic routing and stateful session management to support challenge creation, bid submission with temporal metadata, and per-project chat channels. Integrated modular UI components with conditional rendering and local persistence to enable authenticated user dashboards and lifecycle-managed challenge workflows.

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LifeHub

Developed a full-stack personal health dashboard using React and FastAPI, integrating the USDA FoodData Central API for dynamic nutrition search and logging. Implemented RESTful endpoints with in-memory data storage to track diet, activity, mood, and wellness metrics, coupled with responsive UI features like calorie goal progress and multi-tab navigation. Configured CORS and deployed frontend/backend separately on Render to enable seamless cross-origin communication, focusing on user-centric design and real-time data aggregation for holistic lifestyle monitoring.

Live Site | GitHub Repo

Personal Portfolio Website

Designed and developed a responsive personal portfolio website showcasing my education, experience, projects, and technical skills. Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it features dark mode toggling, smooth scrolling navigation, and mobile-friendly layouts to enhance user experience.

Live Site | GitHub Repo

Sentiment Analysis Tool

Automated a movie sentiment analysis pipeline on Google Cloud Platform by leveraging Natural Language Processing and machine learning. Utilized Cloud Functions for serverless data ingestion and BigQuery for scalable data processing and interactive querying, enabling real-time insights on user movie reviews.

MovieDB SQL Queries

Leveraged Python and SQLite to perform complex SQL queries on a movie database. Analyzed patterns in actor collaborations, movie rankings, and director styles to generate actionable insights and visualize trends in filmography data.

Multi-Process and Multi-Threaded Web Servers

Enhanced a basic single-threaded web server in C by implementing multi-processing with fork() and multi-threading with pthread_create(). Incorporated synchronization primitives to ensure thread safety, then benchmarked CPU time and throughput to analyze performance improvements.

Double-Buffered Graphics Library

Implemented a low-level graphics library in C utilizing Linux system calls to provide double buffering for smooth rendering. Managed input handling and efficient drawing operations to enable flicker-free graphical applications.

Airline System

Developed a Java-based airline management system incorporating graph algorithms like Dijkstra’s shortest path and Breadth-First Search (BFS) for route planning. Enabled efficient scheduling, booking, and navigation of flight paths within the network.

Nested Virtualization on GCP

Configured nested virtualization by running virtual machines inside virtual machines on Google Cloud Platform using KVM and QEMU. Demonstrated the ability to simulate complex multi-layered virtual environments for testing and development purposes.

Dockerize the App

Created a multi-architecture Docker image for a Node.js application to ensure consistent execution across different CPU platforms. Streamlined deployment processes and improved environment parity using containerization best practices.

Docker Compose the Stack

Configured a multi-service Docker Compose setup to orchestrate a Flask backend API, Nginx reverse proxy, and MongoDB database. Defined isolated networks and persistent volumes to facilitate scalable development and deployment with clean separation of concerns.

Kubernetes WordPress

Deployed a production-ready WordPress application on a local Kubernetes cluster using KinD (Kubernetes in Docker). Set up MySQL as a persistent backend with persistent volume claims, configured service discovery for internal communication, and ensured data durability across pod restarts.

Cloud Storage Static Site

Deployed a static website to Google Cloud Storage, integrating Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with GitHub Actions. Automated build and deployment workflows to enable seamless and rapid updates to the site.