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Sai Keerthy Kakarla

Burlington,Massachusetts

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Black Duck (Acquired from Synopsys)
04.2024 - Current
  • Built and deployed a customer-facing backend server using REST APIs, hosted on Kubernetes (GKE) with VPC for secure network communication and PostgreSQL for data storage.
  • Configured Nginx Ingress Controller for traffic routing and used k9s for efficient Kubernetes cluster management.
  • Leveraged LLMs to prevent IP leakage, scanned responses for vulnerabilities, and ensured LLM-generated code adhered to security and compliance standards.
  • Working on identifying the open-source LLM from which a client's model is derived, conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the model's strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, and vulnerabilities.

Senior Software Engineer II

Synopsys
12.2021 - 03.2024
  • Optimized an internal tool, reducing data size by 22%, processing time by 60%, and cloud costs significantly.
  • Improved Python open-source project matching accuracy from 24% to 75%, enhancing reliability and efficiency.
  • Led maintenance and releases of a C/C++ matching tool, supporting 15+ sales engineers and incorporating customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.

Senior Software Engineer I

Synopsys
12.2019 - 11.2021
  • Developed ML models for open-source security, achieving 4x faster predictions and 20% improved accuracy.
  • Designed a C/C++ matching tool with TDD, streamlined demo setups using Docker, and improved functionality through bug resolution and cross-team collaboration.

Software Engineer

ItVorks
09.2019 - 12.2019
  • Conducted data analysis with SQL and applied KNN and logistic regression, improving classification accuracy.

Machine Learning Intern

Samsung Research America
11.2018 - 06.2019
  • Developed a personalized recommendation system for restaurants and concerts, increasing hit rate from 60% to 75%.
  • Utilized advanced text feature engineering (n-grams, TF-IDF, word2vec), and sentiment models (LDA2Vec, NLTK) for improved analysis.

Research Assistant

Arizona State University
07.2018 - 11.2018
  • Designed and implemented Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures to address diverse challenges, including image classification, object detection, and localization.

Education

Masters of Science - Electrical engineering

Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
05.2018

Bachelors of Technology - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

VNRVJIET
Hyderabad, India
05.2016

Skills

  • Core Technologies: Python, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, PostgreSQL, Git, Apache Spark, Hive, HDFS, Nginx, Helm, Ingress, K9S, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Flask, Jupyter Notebook, Jenkins, Datadog, Grafana
  • Occasionally/ Past Experience: Scala, Java, C, Go, HTML5, Bigtable, CMake, Make, Matplotlib, SciPy, XGBoost, OpenCV, Hugging Face, Postman, LangChain

Accomplishments

  • Granted a patent for developing an innovative system for organizing software packages based on the identification of unique attributes.
  • Non-provisional patent application filed for protecting Intellectual property using digital signatures.

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Black Duck (Acquired from Synopsys)
04.2024 - Current

Senior Software Engineer II

Synopsys
12.2021 - 03.2024

Senior Software Engineer I

Synopsys
12.2019 - 11.2021

Software Engineer

ItVorks
09.2019 - 12.2019

Machine Learning Intern

Samsung Research America
11.2018 - 06.2019

Research Assistant

Arizona State University
07.2018 - 11.2018

Masters of Science - Electrical engineering

Arizona State University

Bachelors of Technology - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

VNRVJIET

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