Soumalya Chowdhury — I build software that explains itself.
Full-stack web apps, AI agents and explainable-AI research, shipped for clients and published in peer-reviewed journals. Developer at Accenture, based in India.
Available worldwide for freelance projects (web apps, AI agents, explainable-AI systems) and for international research collaborations in explainable AI, edge AI and bioacoustics. Works remotely across time zones.
Roles
As an Engineer: I build software that holds up.
Developer at Accenture. Full-stack web apps and AI agents, from idea to production, for teams and for clients. I care most about the failure paths.
As a Researcher: I study how AI can be trusted.
Explainable AI, edge inference and bioacoustics. Peer-reviewed in Springer Nature and IJIMAI, with four Government of India software copyrights.
As a Photographer: I look for the ordinary made strange.
Architecture, texture and quiet corners of India, shot on a Canon EOS 200D II.
As a Writer: I write down what I learn.
Essays on agents, React and edge computing. Honest notes, not hype.
Work & research
- Digital Marketing for Recruiting and Acquiring Talent: A State of the Art Survey (2023) — A state-of-the-art survey on digital marketing strategies applied to talent acquisition — reviewing platforms, targeting methodologies, and emerging AI-driven recruitment pipelines across industry sectors.
- Interactive Wheel of Life: A Self-Monitoring Tool (2021) — A visual self-monitoring tool built around the wheel-of-life model — eight life dimensions rendered interactively so users can identify where balance is breaking down and act on it.
- Competency-Based Assessment in Classroom (2021) — An online competency-based assessment technique enabling teachers to calibrate learning outcomes against student competencies in real time, with dynamic rubric generation and per-student performance tracking.
- Explainable bird-sound species recognition (2024) — Published in Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer, 2024) — 34 citations.
Clients
- Vivekananda Swasthya Seva Sangha (Heath Care, Non Profit) — A mobile health tracking app, available on app stores, that lets users easily record notes and monitor data at every level: individual surveyor, center, and hea
This solution has completely changed our operations. Everything is very easy now, and we are able to identify and track the right patient quickly, even in remote villages. It has saved us time and reduced our paperwork. Thank you, Soumalya Chowdhury.
- Ramkrishna Mission Viveka Tirtha (Educational Institute) — I have worked on their social media presence and delivered sessions for their students in Digital Marketing and Social Media Management.
Writing
- Light Before the Lens: What Photography Taught Me About Seeing — The camera matters less than the decision to pay attention before the shutter. Working with whatever light is there reveals what perfect light would hide.
- Building AI Agents That Actually Work in the Real World — Most AI agent demos are impressive in a controlled environment. Production is a different country — one with edge cases, bad inputs, and users who never read the documentation.
- React in 2026: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier — Persistent React mistakes: treating state as a mirror of the UI and using useEffect as a lifecycle hook. Fetch data where it is needed, and read library source.
- Edge Computing Is Not a Buzzword Anymore — Here Is What It Actually Means — Edge computing moves inference onto the device instead of a central cloud. The open problem now is coordinating state across edge devices without a constant connection.
- How Gen AI Has Actually Changed My Development Workflow — Not the hype version — the honest one. What generative AI has genuinely changed about how I write, debug, and ship code, and what it has not changed at all.