Portfolio Jayadev Kodali · Slough / London, UK

Builds AI.
Delivers projects.

Assistant Project Manager at Bovis (formerly Lendlease), managing 45 contractors across live multi-site operations — and creator of BidCraft, an AI bid-writing tool that grew into a family of products. Computer Systems Engineering graduate, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Open to opportunities in AI & engineering
01

Profile

I took an unusual route: from building Spark data pipelines to managing contractors on live construction projects — and then bringing the two worlds together.

At Lendlease I spotted a slow, repetitive problem in how the team answered tenders, so I built an AI tool trained on our library of historic bid answers. It delivers evidence-based responses with supporting case studies and a feedback loop for continuous improvement — producing more competitive bids and significant time savings. At Bovis, that tool became BidCraft and grew into specialised products for policies & procedures, tender analysis and tender summaries.

Day to day, I operate in a commercial project-management capacity: 45 contractors, invoicing, contract administration and procurement — the discipline of actually shipping. My foundation is engineering: Apache Spark and Scala pipelines, Hive and MySQL for big data, EMR deployments, and full-stack builds with Python and React.

I'm at my best where engineering meets delivery: automating the boring parts, building tools people actually use, and keeping complex projects moving. I'm looking to grow further into AI development, bringing both the technical depth and the delivery discipline with me.

45Contractors managed at Bovis
1 → 4+BidCraft grown into a product family
3×Winning-team project manager at university
High 2:1BEng Computer Systems Engineering
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Experience

Apr 2025 — Present

Assistant Project Manager

Bovis · London, UK

  • Operating in a commercial project-management capacity, directly managing a team of 45 contractors within complex multi-site operations.
  • Leading invoice generation and processing, contract administration and procurement oversight — driving accuracy in financial tracking and compliance with commercial agreements.
  • Advanced BidCraft into specialised AI products: policies & procedures bots, tender-analysis bots and tender-summary bots, with further bespoke solutions in development.
  • Exploring wider AI implementations across the Bovis business; recognised for efficient delivery of project milestones and managing competing priorities through an operational transition.

Oct 2024 — Apr 2025

Assistant Project Manager

Lendlease · London, UK

  • Designed and built an AI-powered bid-response tool trained on historic bid answers, delivering evidence-based responses complete with case studies — the origin of BidCraft.
  • Implemented Power Automate workflows and built multiple Power BI dashboards, improving project reporting and analysis.
  • Created project systems from scratch: snag-list tracking, an asset tracker, a DSR log, a centralised project-experience database and a client feedback system.
  • Played a key role in RISQE audit preparation — evidence collection, documentation validation and quality compliance. Certified in NEC4 Foundation, CITB Core Trades Awareness, Asbestos Awareness and IIF.

Sep 2023 — Feb 2024

Data Engineer — Spark Data Transformation

Freelance · London, UK

  • Built an end-to-end Spark application in Scala ingesting continuous real-world API data, flattening nested JSON into usable DataFrames.
  • Cleaned and preprocessed data with regular expressions, handled nulls with Spark's na functions, and optimised joins using broadcast for performance.
  • Delivered readable, maintainable code — well-labelled stages, clear commentary and Avro handling via the Databricks Spark-Avro library.

Oct 2022 — May 2023

Data Engineer — Hadoop Ecosystem

Freelance · London, UK

  • Orchestrated ETL between MySQL and Hadoop HDFS with Sqoop, including configured incremental loads for continuous migration.
  • Designed Avro-backed Hive tables with sophisticated partitioning, and wrote optimised HiveQL for transformation and analysis.

Oct 2022

Software Engineer — BGN Google Hackathon

Google · King's Cross, London

  • Team-built a niche e-commerce platform for tailors to showcase and sell cultural clothing, with profiles, login and reviews.
  • Pioneered automated image tagging with the Google Cloud Vision API; frontend in React & Next.js, backend on Firebase & Firestore.

Earlier (2018–2022): retail at JD Sports (store record for most Crep Protects sold in a day) and STEM tutoring — at AE Tuition and running my own practice, Jay's Tuition. The communication and people skills from those years are what I use daily managing 45 contractors now.

03

Flagship — BidCraft

Case study AI in a live business, not a demo

An AI bid-writing tool, trained on years of historic bid answers, that became a product family.

The problem

Answering tenders meant repeatedly rewriting responses to similar questions, hunting through past projects for supporting evidence. Slow, inconsistent, and it pulled senior people away from strategy.

What I built

An AI tool trained on our extensive library of historic bid answers. Ask it a bid question and it returns a high-quality, evidence-based response with supporting information and relevant case studies from past projects — with a feedback system for continuous improvement.

The outcome

More competitive bids and significant time savings for the team. At Bovis it evolved into specialised products — policies & procedures bots, tender-analysis bots and tender-summary bots — with more bespoke solutions in development.

Generative AITrained on historic bid libraryEvidence + case studiesFeedback loopShipped & adopted
04

Selected builds

High-Availability Compute Cluster

A Linux cluster engineered for continuous service through redundancy and failover — Nginx web serving and load balancing, SSH remote administration, UFW firewalls, and Prometheus + Grafana monitoring. Resilience validated across failure scenarios.

Linux · Nginx · Prometheus · Grafana

Spark Data Pipeline

Production-style Spark (Scala) application refining continuous real-world API data: nested JSON flattening, regex cleaning, broadcast-optimised joins, null strategies and temporal enrichment.

Spark · Scala · Avro · DataFrame API

Hadoop ETL Platform

End-to-end integration from MySQL into HDFS via Sqoop with incremental loads, landing in partitioned, Avro-backed Hive tables queried with optimised HiveQL.

Hadoop · Sqoop · Hive · MySQL

Study Planner + Blog Platform

A Django web app that generates personalised study plans from student syllabuses — secure login, profile management, tailored revision/practice/memorisation formats, a daily completion log, and an interactive blog for collaboration.

Python · Django · SQLite · JS

Cultural E-Commerce Hub

Google Hackathon build: a marketplace for tailors selling cultural clothing, with automated image tagging via Google Cloud Vision for smarter search, plus full user profiles and reviews.

React · Next.js · Firebase · Cloud Vision

Arduino Embedded Systems

Led software and design across a series of Arduino builds: a gesture-controlled table centrepiece with hidden compartments and LED ambience, a working traffic-light system model, and a camera-based reader that plays tunes from detected component patterns.

Arduino · PCBs · Servos · Systems lead

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Capabilities

AI & Automation

Generative AILLM-powered tools (BidCraft)Power AutomatePower BI

Big Data

Apache SparkPySparkSpark StreamingScalaKafkaHadoopSqoopHive

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EMRAWS S3Linux (Ubuntu Server)DockerKubernetesNginxPrometheusGrafana

Programming

PythonC++JavaScriptPowerShellSQL

Web & Product

ReactNext.jsDjangoHTML/CSSFirebase

Data & ML

PandasNumPyScikit-learnETL/ELTData WarehousingData LakehouseMySQL

Delivery

Stakeholder managementContractor managementContract administrationProcurementAgile
06

Credentials

Education

2021 — 2024

BEng Computer Systems Engineering

Royal Holloway, University of London · High 2:1. Project manager for the winning team in termly projects three times.

2016 — 2021

Herschel Grammar School

A Levels including Computer Science (A*) and Mathematics (A).

Certifications

  • APM Associate
  • Databricks Academy — Generative AI Fundamentals
  • Get Started with Databricks for Data Engineering
  • Databricks — Fundamentals of the Lakehouse
  • NEC4 Foundation
  • CITB Core Trades Awareness
  • Asbestos Awareness
  • Incident & Injury Free (IIF)

07  Get in touch

Let's build
something.

Whether it's an AI role, an engineering team, or a project that needs someone who can both build and deliver — I'd like to hear about it.

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