Sidharth Sreekumar

I'm a Developer.

About

Hello There! I'm a penultimate year student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University pursing a degree in Computer Science with a minor in Business Management and Economics. I've been purusing a career in distributed systems across multiple industries through my internships and am passionate about cloud computing, data analytics and finance.

Full-Stack Developer & Analyst.

Primarily focus on workflows involving middleware and distributed computing. But I'm currently doing some research on LLM optimization by looking into optimizing compressions within the GPU architecture.

  • Birthday: 31 May 2004
  • City: Hong Kong SAR
  • Phone: +852 5576 3918

I'm also an active enthusiast of AWS and have been a representative for them since 2022 as an Ambassador, Cloud Captain and Hong Kong Student Community Lead.

Skills

Illustration of skills developed throughout my career as both a student and a working professional.

Frontend (HTML, CSS, JS) 70%
Backend (Python, SQL, Java, Golang) 99%
Apps (Flutter, Dart) 60%
Middleware (Apache Kafka, Apache Lucene, Redis, Memcache) 85%
Design/UX 90%
Communication & Team Management 100%

Resume

Innovative and deadline-driven full-stack developer with 1.5+ years of experience designing and developing user-centered digital services from initial concept to final, polished deliverable.

Summary

Sidharth Sreekumar

An architect and full-stack developer well-versed in architecture design, middleware and api scripting with an interest in cloud computing, data analytics and financial services.

Education

bachelors in computer science & management

Expected Grad. 2026

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

An honors course on Computer Science with a minor in management. Grade: Dean's Honors List | Academic Full-Ride Scholarship

Research

KV Cache Compression

Summer - 2025

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG

  • Researching performance efficiency of LLMs after compression of cached parameters within the GPU architecture
  • Potential to run higher performing models on smaller GPUs

Full Resume

Professional Experience

Analyst - Transformation

Jan 2025 - Present

HSBC, HONG KONG

  • Delivered a total of 8 projects from ideation to completion across digital products, compliance and financial governance
  • Rotated between personal and private banking projects as an intern, delivering 2 new digital prods: HSBC easy Credit Card | HSBC Premier Elite Debit Card
  • Created new systems to automate departmental resource planning, and tracking of financials within the Hong Kong Lending Streams

Middleware Architect Intern

Summer - 2024

Jio Platforms Limited, Mumbai, INDIA

  • Developed APIs serving as real-time pipelines for low latency data transmission in production releases
  • Created a search engine to abstract deployed compute servers for their new cloud platform - JECS

Cloud Ambassador | Community

2023 - Present

Amazon Web Services, Hong Kong

  • Active student community builder within the Hong Kong region since 2023
  • Helped host several large-scale tech conferences including the AWS Summit (HK), PyCon and the AWS University AWSome Day

Portfolio

Below are some of my projects that I have worked on in the past / striving to complete in the near future. Do feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate ! I'm always open to fresh ideas and perspectives to better my existing plans.

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  • Projects
  • Career
  • Volunteering
  • Research

Project | Local Storage Service

Convert a computer into a secure, localized storage server with multi-user uploads and downloads

Project | Search Engine - Lucene Adaptation

Adapting the core Apace Lucene engine to create a fuzzy search engine for web apps in Java

Project | Real-Time JDBC connector

Using Apache Kafka to script a connector for twitter post tweets and a JDBC sink

Project | Monopoly

Experimenting with OOP in Java by building a fully playable version of Monopoly in the terminal

Project | Golden Circle

An IOS and Android mobile version of Meetup, but for a senior audience using Flutter and Dart

Career | Analyst - Transformation

HSBC - Hong Kong, 6 months

Career | Middleware Architect

Jio, Mumbai - India, 3 months

Career | Rwanda, Africa

PolyU x AEE, 6 months

Career | AWS Student Community Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2023-Present

Career | Full-Stack Developer

Evergreen Wearable Technology Ltd., Hong Kong SAR, 5 months

Volunteering | Vice-President, Hall Community Service Group

Lead a student-driven community services group within my university - PolyU

Volunteering | Vice-President, South Asian Society

Lead the largest students association within my university to spread the joys of south asian culture

Research | KV Cache Compression

Optimizing LLMs by attempting to compress cached data within the GPU architecture to allow for better resource utilization with acceptable performance tradeoffs

Research | Stock Price Prediction with MVO x LSTM

Attempting to make a successful stock price prediction model by combining the existing Mean Variance Optimization model (MVO) with a Long Short-Term Memory model (LSTM) to retain historial releations between stock prices for consistent and accurate predictions.