About
Senior software engineer in Hyderabad. Six years in test automation, five building Python backends and AI features, and a few products of my own on the side.
Where I started
I studied computer science at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College and started out in testing. I spent three years at TCS and a year at Cognizant writing Selenium automation for regression suites. In 2016 I took a three-year career break.
I came back in 2019 as automation lead at MCS Solutions (now Spacewell). I owned the Selenium-Java framework there and led failure triage with the backend developers.
At Deepen AI
In 2021 I moved into engineering at Deepen AI, and I've been a senior software engineer there since January 2025. I build features end to end, from Django REST APIs on MongoDB to the React interfaces on top.
More recently that has meant AI features: a natural-language query interface over large datasets, a sandbox for running generated code safely, and document search. Alongside them, platform work: making background jobs reliable, adding two-factor authentication, and keeping data in the right region for customers in the EU.
On the side
Since April 2025 I've been building Hawzu outside work. It's a test management product, and I do all of it myself: the backend, the app, the sites and the deploys. It's where the two halves of my career meet.
In October 2026 I added two more products on a shared backend. Snoowl Audit checks a support chatbot's answers against the company's docs. Snoowl Answers is a support assistant built from those docs.
I write about how these were built under Writing.
Get in touch
Email is the easiest way: srinath.svec@gmail.com. The full history is on the work page.