Sai Bharadwaj Burra
Austin,TX
Summary
Software Engineer with nearly 4 years of experience delivering fast, reliable, and intuitive web platforms for large-scale, high-stakes environments. Blends deep technical expertise with a focus on usability, streamlining complex workflows into seamless user experiences. Proven success improving performance, reducing latency, and shipping features that make measurable impact at companies like PayPal, AWS, and Verizon.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineer
PayPal
Austin, TX
08.2023 - Current
- Redesigned the internal payment configuration platform in React.js + Material UI, introducing API batching, caching, and on-demand data fetching — reducing category search load times from 6s+ to under 3s for large datasets.
- Developed a tenant-aware category validation engine in Node.js to support Apollo’s 10-character alphanumeric category codes while preserving legacy validation rules for other tenants, enabling frictionless onboarding for new partners.
- Built a high-performance multi-level tree navigation for category hierarchies with thousands of nodes using virtualized rendering, ensuring consistent 60fps scrolling.
- Implemented Webpack code-splitting, dynamic imports, and tree-shaking to cut bundle size by 25% and improve time-to-interactive for users on low-bandwidth VPN connections.
- Automated manual Excel-based onboarding workflows into a self-service web tool, reducing setup time by ~35% and eliminating common data-entry errors.
- Established UI component standards and a shared library adopted across multiple product teams, ensuring design consistency and reducing duplicated code.
Software Developer
Amazon
Austin, Tx
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Built a real-time ECS container health monitoring dashboard using React, AWS Lambda, and SNS, streaming live deployment metrics and failures — reducing mean time to detect incidents by 20%.
- Engineered multi-region ECS deployment orchestration in AWS CDK with wave-based rollouts, dependency-aware sequencing, and automatic rollback on failed health checks, enabling safe rollouts to 8+ AWS regions.
- Integrated CloudWatch metric streams with Prometheus/Grafana to provide near real-time ECS performance visualization, allowing teams to identify CPU/memory anomalies within seconds.
- Optimized ECS alerting pipelines by implementing Lambda-based aggregation logic, reducing repetitive/noisy alerts by 30% and improving operational focus.
- Designed deployment health validation hooks that run automated tests against live ECS tasks during staged rollouts, preventing bad builds from reaching full production.
Software Engineer
Verizon
Irving, Texas
08.2021 - 09.2022
- Migrated enterprise customer dashboards from jQuery/AJAX to React.js + Spring Boot, consolidating multiple fragmented services into reusable APIs and improving load consistency across products.
- Designed and implemented dynamic role-based access control (RBAC), enabling granular feature toggling for different enterprise clients without requiring redeploys.
- Optimized data-heavy analytics tables (~100k+ rows) with server-side pagination, virtual scrolling, and indexed queries — reducing render times by over 60% and eliminating browser freezes.
- Built an SQS-powered asynchronous workflow to process high-volume billing and reporting events without blocking UI transactions, improving system responsiveness during peak loads.
- Streamlined backend queries through performance profiling and index tuning, cutting API response times by 40% and reducing database load during batch operations.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 01.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor’s of Technology - Computer Science
Cvr College of Engineering
Hyderabad, 08.2015 - 04.2019
Skills
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, Reactjs, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Nodejs, Expressjs, Spring Boot
- Front-End Development: Web Design, Material-UI, Bootstrap, Webpack, REST API Integration, Performance Optimization
- Backend & Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, GraphQL, SQS, EC
- DevOps & Tools: Git, Docker, AWS CDK, CI/CD Pipelines, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Jest, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, API Gateway), Kubernetes
- Testing & Optimization: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing, Code-Splitting, Lazy Loading, Virtualized Rendering
Timeline
Software Engineer
PayPal
08.2023 - Current
Software Developer
Amazon
09.2022 - 07.2023
Software Engineer
Verizon
08.2021 - 09.2022
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
01.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor’s of Technology - Computer Science
Cvr College of Engineering
08.2015 - 04.2019