Sai Chaitanya Manchikatla

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years in supply chain and warehouse management systems.
Expert in building large scale distributed systems.
Strong focus on operational excellence and real-world problem solving.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer specializing in large-scale distributed systems and operational excellence.

Contact

chait.pilami@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsOperational ExcellenceServerless Architecture

Other Skills

Agentic AI DevelopmentAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentCC++Computer ScienceCore integrationsData StructuresHTMLHigh-throughput distributed web applicationsInvoicing and printing systemsJavaLinuxMatlabMicrosoft Office

About

Have 10+ years of experience in Supply chain and Warehouse management systems. My focus as Senior SDE at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies is building large scale distributed systems that span across various organizations which power Packaging and Shipping engine. I have keen interest in solving real-world problems using industry 4.0 at scale, developing workcells that live on the edge. I have built and deployed multiple applications in the following domains. 1. Distributed systems 2. Serverless architecture 3. Events/State-machine driven systems. 4. Large scale web micro-services. 5. Operational excellence. Prior to Amazon, CSE graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IITM). Minor in Social Entrepreneurship. Represented IITM at national (Robocon) , international (FIRA) and at Inter-IIT Tech Meet. Technical Affairs Secretary of Hostel, Core member at CFI, Secretary at Exebit.

Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

As Technical leader for Packing and Shipping teams, I lead the Architecture Design and Development of applications using next generation industry platforms empowering the diverse fulfillment solutions across Amazon.

Distributed systemsServerless architectureOperational excellence

Software Development Engineer II

Apr 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Developed core integrations in Packing web application used by Amazon associates. Responsible for scaling up critical high-throughput distributed web applications for Q4 peak events. Developed server-less system to churn huge data generated by real time applications to generate machine learning insights.

Core integrationsHigh-throughput distributed web applicationsServer-less systemsDistributed systemsServerless architecture

Software Developer Engineer

May 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Rearchitected legacy invoice printing application using workflow based distributed system. Improved overall p90 latency by 70% using pre-caching. Responsible for scaling up invoicing and printing systems for Q4 peak.

Workflow based distributed systemPre-cachingInvoicing and printing systemsDistributed systemsOperational excellence