Surya Manavalan

Software Engineer II, Broadridge

• Built and manage the backend services for ProxyVote, which handles 550 billion shares across 4,500 shareholder meetings annually.
• Orchestrated a multi-agent harness to rebuild a large legacy admin service from scratch on a modern stack, remediating hundreds of vulnerabilities and retiring years of tech debt.
• Delivered core modules for Broadridge’s Workstation Framework, an internal platform for building compliant, enterprise-grade financial applications, powering apps that manage $122B+ in client assets.
• Developed an agentic workflow skill-brain that lets our cloud agents provide platform support, triage issues, and make small bug fixes autonomously across our React, Node, and Spring Boot codebases.

Software Engineer, Momentum Optics

• Built a landing page and custom client dashboard in collaboration with the CEO: momentumoptics.com.
• Developed Python cloud functions for core backend services: Mailchimp newsletter signups, client dashboard authentication, CRM, and Stripe billing.

Software Engineer Intern, T-Mobile

• Owned an observability overhaul across the frontend and backend of the payment system, implementing OpenTelemetry with Jaeger and Prometheus.
• Integrated Trustly’s banking widget into customer payment flows, letting customers pay their phone plan directly from their bank, contributing to a projected $20M+/year in credit card fee savings.

MLRagent

Agentic medical, legal & regulatory review for pharma professionals.

• Solo-built an enterprise AI tool used by real medical writing professionals: a cloud-sandboxed Claude Agent SDK harness and interface for reviewing deliverables against FDA guidelines.
• A multi-agent system that distills FDA guidelines into an auditable agent brain.

entityspace

A replication and visual representation of LLM interpretability research.

• Replicated Anthropic’s Assistant Axis paper on Qwen3-1.7B, with an AWS GPU worker extracting activations for each new persona live.
• Built a Three.js app that places personas in 3D by activation projection; 1,300+ visitors and 280+ summons.

Open World Chess

A browser game with automated AI advertising.

• Built and launched an open-world multiplayer chess game (TypeScript, Node, WebSockets) that has drawn 700+ players.
• Set up a marketing pipeline where a scheduled agent uses custom skills to script, film, voice, and post a new video ad to TikTok every day.

University of Colorado Boulder

B.S. in Computer Science

Full-stack development, HCI, software engineering methods, machine learning, operating systems, computer systems, data structures & algorithms, databases, theory of computation.