Otooru Baba

About

Full-stack software engineer with production experience across Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Builds scalable, testable systems end-to-end, with strengths in API development, system design, debugging, and code quality.

Experience

• Web Development & Generative AI Trainee
  Novacode
  Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Education

• Bachelor of Technology
  Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education
  Computer Science & Engineering · 2021 – 2025

Skills

• SQL
• Angular
• CSS
• FastAPI
• Git
• HTML
• Python
• MySQL
• Java
• JavaScript
• MongoDB
• Node.js
• Tailwind CSS
• PostgreSQL
• React
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• TypeScript
• AWS
• Next.js
• Docker
• Spring Boot
• Keras
• Redux
• JWT
• Microservices
• Bash
• Generative AI
• REST APIs
• NLP
• Distributed Systems
• GCP
• RAG
• CNN
• Redis
• Faiss
• Arrays
• Trees
• Graphs
• Hash Maps
• Dynamic Programming

Projects

• Medicinal Plant Identification Platform
  Python, TensorFlow, Streamlit, CNN, REST API, HTML, CSS

  Built and deployed an end-to-end plant identification application with a CNN inference backend and Streamlit frontend for real-time classification across 30+ species.

• Brain Tumor Detection System
  Python, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, CNN

  Developed an MRI preprocessing, augmentation, and CNN inference pipeline achieving 95%+ classification accuracy across four tumor categories.

• AI Shopping Assistant – Chatbot
  Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Redis, FAISS, Sentence Transformers, Llama 3.1

  Built a production-grade AI shopping assistant with a FastAPI backend and React/TypeScript frontend, using a RAG pipeline for context-aware recommendations over 500+ products. Resolved latency, memory, and hallucination issues through root cause analysis and refactoring.

• Online Coding Judge System
  Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, JWT

  Designed and developed a large-scale full-stack coding platform with Java/Spring Boot backend execution services and a React frontend editor. Reduced P95 response latency by about 40% through performance fixes and caching improvements, and added JUnit tests, Swagger documentation, Docker Compose, and structured logging.

Courses & certifications

• AWS Solutions Architecture Job Simulation · Forage · 2026
• Cloud Infrastructure · Oracle · 2025
• Web Development & Generative AI · Novacode · 2025
• Linear Regression with NumPy · Coursera · 2024