SATYA KUDULLA
Full stack developer
San Francisco, CA Open for relocation to Seattle, WA Plano, TX Chicago, IL New York, NY 314-***-**** ****************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/satya-kudulla-88096321b/ SUMMARY
• Full Stack Developer with 5 year’s experience designing scalable applications, specializing in Python, React, and serverless microservices to deliver AI-powered business solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Skilled in backend and frontend integration, building high-performance REST and GraphQL APIs, enhancing user experiences through modern frameworks, automated testing, and robust security practices.
• Experienced in AWS cloud-native development, deploying serverless applications, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and orchestrating distributed microservices with Kubernetes, Helm, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Adept at collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and ML engineers to integrate LLM APIs, Generative AI, and predictive analytics into innovative, customer-centric platforms. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Full Stack developer, April 2024 - Present
Shopify (Shopify Magic) San Francisco, CA
• Co-led the development of scalable, serverless Python (FastAPI) microservices interfacing with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), powering AI product description generation for 1M+ merchants.
• Jointly engineered asynchronous backend workflows using Redis, PostgreSQL, and S3, boosting request throughput by 40% and ensuring reliability under peak loads.
• Equally contributed to frontend integration, embedding AI modules into Shopify Admin with React.js, TypeScript, and Polaris, cutting preview latency by 30%.
• Collaboratively designed and deployed serverless services on AWS, enabling real-time AI inference and secure API integrations at global scale.
• Co-developed modular RESTful and GraphQL APIs, implementing RBAC and OAuth2 to uphold data security and architectural scalability.
• Jointly orchestrated distributed microservices with Kubernetes and Helm, driving autoscaling and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry.
• Partnered in maintaining CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and Docker, ensuring continuous integration and rapid, low-risk feature delivery.
• Worked cross-functionally in Agile sprints with PMs, designers, and ML engineers to refine AI outputs, improve UX, and enhance model accuracy.
• Contributed to robust automated testing strategy, achieving 95% coverage with PyTest, Jest, and React Testing Library, reducing bugs by 60%.
• Equally responsible for AI-first product innovation, ensuring scalability, compliance, and adoption across a merchant base exceeding one million users.
Python Developer July 2021 – July 2023
Cognizant India
• Assisted in developing an AI-driven price optimization engine for a retail client using Python, Django, and ML models, which increased profit margins by 12%.
• Supported the design of a predictive healthcare analytics platform leveraging PyTorch, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL, helping reduce patient readmission rates by 15%.
• Developed and analyzed a crop science optimization system with TensorFlow, geospatial APIs, and React dashboards, improving yield prediction accuracy by 20%.
• Designed and implemented end-to-end applications using Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), React, TypeScript, and Next.js, ensuring scalable and responsive solutions.
• Built and integrated data pipelines and APIs with PySpark, Airflow, GraphQL, and REST, while managing SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Deployed cloud-native applications on AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SageMaker) using containerization with Docker & Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and scalable performance.
• Automated CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible, improving deployment speed and reducing release errors by 30%.
• Applied modern full-stack practices in microservices, serverless computing, ML Ops (MLflow, Kubeflow), and Generative AI integration (LangChain, Hugging Face, LLM APIs) to deliver scalable, future-ready applications. Full Stack Developer June 2019 – June 2021
IBM India
• Co-developed JouleOS, a cloud-native AI platform for power demand forecasting, achieving 98.2% accuracy and helping state electricity boards cut over-procurement costs.
• Assisted in designing and deploying AI-driven sales forecasting models that improved prediction accuracy by 25% and reduced unsold inventory, boosting revenue optimization across Jack & Jones, Vero Moda, and Only.
• Supported cross-functional teams by developing scalable microservices and APIs with Python (Flask/FastAPI), containerized using Docker & Kubernetes on IBM Cloud, enabling real-time insights and reducing planning cycles by 30%.
• Developed interactive dashboards with React.js, TypeScript, and Material UI, seamlessly integrated with Python APIs, enhancing user experience and driving adoption of the AI-powered platform across business units.
• Analyzed large-scale retail sales data by building end-to-end ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, Pandas, and Apache Airflow, ensuring automated ingestion, data accuracy, and retraining of ML models for reliable forecasts.
• Leveraged GraphQL, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, and AWS Lambda to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions with observability and AI integration. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming & Scripting: Python (FastAPI, Flask, Django), JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, SQL, PySpark, Bash Frontend Development: React.js, Next.js, Redux, Polaris (Shopify), Material UI, HTML5, CSS3, SASS Backend & APIs: RESTful APIs, GraphQL, OAuth2, RBAC, Microservices Architecture, Asynchronous Workflows Databases & Data Engineering: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL/NoSQL, Data Pipelines (Airflow, PySpark, Pandas), ETL Design
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SageMaker, EKS), Azure (AKS, Data Lake), IBM Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Automation AI/ML & Data Science: LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), Hugging Face, LangChain, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow, Kubeflow, Generative AI Integration, AI-driven Forecasting & Optimization Testing & Quality Assurance: PyTest, Jest, React Testing Library, Unit & Integration Testing, Automated Test Coverage Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Logging & Metrics Pipelines, Distributed Tracing Collaboration & Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Cross-functional Teaming, Product Lifecycle Management, Secure Development Practices
Soft Skills: Problem Solving, Communication, Collaborative Work, Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Engagement, Code Reviews EDUCATION
Saint Louis University
Master of Science Information Systems