Praeynaeyv
Nutalapati

Software Engineer & Designer

Projects

Yarralytics

Detailed post-game performance analytics for Brawlhalla. Website and native Rust client that automatically renders statistics as a post-game overlay. Games are processed by a distributed cluster of worker VMs coordinated through Service Bus.

Next.jsRustD3AzureCF Workers

Telestrator

Freehand illustration tool for sports/esports analysts. A video feed is ingested through NDI, then compressed with NVENC and streamed over WebRTC to an iPad for low-latency telestration.

RustWebRTCNVENCNDIH.264

HATEOAS but Client-Side and Offline

Fully client-side, no-build HTMX todo list. All requests are intercepted and handled by a service worker, resulting in a fully offline HATEOAS application. Also includes a basic HTTP router implementation for the service worker.

JavaScriptHTMXService Workers

Stream Toolkit (Gjallarhorn)

⁄⁄Brawlhalla Esports

Real-time system to ingest and tournament data for live production. Consolidates data for downstream CG software (CharacterWorks, Aston, vMix). Architected to be resilient against dependent service (start.gg, internal APIs, game spectator clients) failure without downtime for the livestream.

ReactNode.jsWebSocketsAWS

Brawlhalla.com Design Refresh

⁄⁄Brawlhalla Esports

Design refresh for the Brawlhalla website. Migrated from a Divi-powered WordPress theme to a headless WordPress CMS and a SvelteKit front-end.

FigmaSvelteKitWordPressAWS

Odin's Journal

⁄⁄Brawlhalla Esports

Twitch Extension to esports viewership experience. Displays interactive statistics, tournament bracket updates, and viewer votes in an overlay window.

ReactTwitch PubSubAWSFigma

Code Dumper

Extracts the minimal subset of code for a given function to run, similar to Webpack’s tree shaking. Parses Python AST and recursively builds a per-statement dependency tree.

Python

Skin Explorer

Splash art viewer for League of Legends champions. Preserves historical splash art and tracks changes. Automatically refreshes with new content whenever a new game patch is released.

Next.jsNode.jsRedis

Reinforcement Learning Adventures

Exploration using Deep Q-Networks to play the Chrome Dinosaur Game, Connect 4, and Othello. This was my first exposure to reinforcement learning, inspired by OpenAI's article on emergent tool use in RL agents.

PythonKerasOpenAI Gym

Rubik's Cube RL Agents

⁄⁄Georgia Tech

Machine Learning (CS 4641) end-of-semester project to solve a Rubik’s Cube using reinforcement learning. Explored a variety of agents, network architectures, and hyperparameters.

PythonKerasOpenAI Gym

Sona but it's played on a piano

Using a digital piano to play Sona (a musical champion in League of Legends). Abilities are mapped to chords on the piano. Because both hands are preoccupied, mouse control is done using computer vision tracking a foot.

PythonOpenCVMIDI

Reactive Stage Lighting

⁄⁄Brawlhalla Esports

Synchronized stage lighting and animations with in-game events like KOs and player damage.

Node.jsUDPDMX