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Jyoti Lakra

Kirkland,WA

Summary

At Snowflake, leadership responsibilities focus on driving innovation within Snowpark Container Services, including Image Registry, Ingress, and Billing. This fully managed container offering, built on Kubernetes, empowers customers to seamlessly run containerized applications within the Snowflake ecosystem without handling deployment, scaling, or management. The role emphasizes integrating Snowflake’s data and compute capabilities into a unified solution that enhances efficiency and accessibility. With over three years of experience in cloud computing at AWS, contributions included leading a 15-person team managing AWS Lambda's dataplane and orchestrating high-scale distributed systems, achieving TPS of approximately 7M. By enabling impactful features like Lambda Function URLs, efforts centered on empowering customers through simplified and scalable cloud services.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Leader

Snowflake
06.2024 - Current
  • Leading multiple teams in Snowpark Container Services (SPCS) comprising of Image Registry (Container Image Registry), Ingress (Api Gateway) and Billing.
  • Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering built on top of Kubernetes, which allows customers to run containerized applications within the Snowflake ecosystem, without having to do management, deployment or scaling. SPCS integrates seamlessly with Snowflake, providing access to data, compute resources, and other Snowflake features, all without needing to move data outside the platform.

Software Developer Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12.2021 - 05.2024
  • Led a team of 15 people which is the gateway to AWS Lambda dataplane (rate limiting, load-shedding, authn/authz) and orchestrator of lambda function execution (provisioning and connecting to the VM and executing the lambda function). This component is a high scale backend distributed system which operates at TPS of around 7M.

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
11.2020 - 12.2021
  • Designed, executed and launched Lambda Function URLs feature as tech lead along with 15+ SDEs, PMs and SDMs in April 2022. Function URLs offers flexible HTTP endpoints to our customers as a feature of Lambda, which provides capability to customers to add HTTP endpoints to new and existing functions without having to integrate with a separate AWS service. When enabled, the Lambda URL provides a unique HTTPS endpoint per function, making it easy to call functions from web browsers, client applications using standard http libraries, or any other HTTP compatible service including AWS AppMesh.

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2018 - 11.2020
  • Designed, executed and launched Lambda Private Link feature as the tech lead in Nov 2020. With this feature customers can manage and invoke Lambda functions from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing their traffic to the public internet. PrivateLink provides private connectivity between customers' VPCs and AWS services, like Lambda, on the private AWS network. Also, worked on Lambda Provisioned capacity feature to solve the cold start problem along with delivering bad host detection mechanisms.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2015 - 06.2018
  • Worked on building a recommendation system using MR jobs and clustering for AWS Silk browser for Amazon kindle products.

SDE Intern

Amazon
06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Created a plan for migration of a service from OracleDB to DynamoDB along with the design of database in DynamoDB (conversion from sql to Nosql) and wrote the scripts for the same.
  • Created an application using Fitnesse acceptance testing framework where developers can write their test cases and developers or non developers can see the results on the browser. Supported business level testing.

SDE Intern

HackerEarth
12.2013 - 01.2014
  • Created a flexible "system" using django-haystack and elasticSearch for full text search on all kinds of entities on the site including users, problems and events etc with appropriate access control and authorization provisions. Led to increase in better user engagement and participation owing to better navigation and other added capabilities like time sensitive results.

Academic internship

IIT Mandi
12.2012 - 02.2013
  • Under Timothy A. Gonsalves (Director IIT Mandi)
  • A web application for managing employee records with facility for automatic mail reminders on events like end of contract, end of probation, retirement etc. Currently deployed at IIT Mandi and handles data of over 200 employees.
  • Photo Gallery Generator - A GUI based program for generating portable (can be put at any path on a web server) web pages for photo galleries. Galleries can have albums and photos with headings and captions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
01.2015

Skills

  • Infrastructure
  • Kubernetes
  • Container Orchestration
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Billing
  • People Management
  • Leadership
  • Performance Management
  • Cross Function Team Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Planning

Languages

English (Native or Bilingual)
German (Elementary)

Timeline

Engineering Leader

Snowflake
06.2024 - Current

Software Developer Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12.2021 - 05.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
11.2020 - 12.2021

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2018 - 11.2020

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2015 - 06.2018

SDE Intern

Amazon
06.2014 - 08.2014

SDE Intern

HackerEarth
12.2013 - 01.2014

Academic internship

IIT Mandi
12.2012 - 02.2013

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

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