Writing

Notes on things I've built — mostly systems that had to work under real constraints. Written by Bodapati Bharat Chandra, from lived experience.

3 posts · AI systems · Rocketry · Startups · Hyderabad, India

June 2026

How I built CAN-7USAT rocket telemetry with sub-5ms latency

A technical breakdown of the real-time ground control station I built for GARI's IN-SPACe national rocketry competition entry — 46-byte binary packets, Kalman filtering, and a 6-state flight state machine.

RocketryFastAPIWebSocketsKalman Filter

May 2026

Building a fully on-premise LLM pipeline at BHEL

How I built a production AI vendor compliance portal for BHEL that runs entirely on local infrastructure — no external APIs, no data leaving the network. FastAPI + Ollama + PyMuPDF.

LLMFastAPIOllamaProduction AI

April 2026

Co-founding Easify: Smart pooling in Hyderabad

What I learned building a ride-pooling platform from scratch — architecture decisions, real-time matching, and the hardest part: getting people to actually use it.

StartupFastAPIPostgreSQLProduct