About Me

I am Sai Teja Chokkarapu, a passionate software engineer with experience at Amazon, focusing on distributed systems and full-stack development. At Amazon, I contributed to the Amazon Health's notifications engine and pharmacy detail page enhancements. As a Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I covered Machine Organization and Intro to AI, reflecting my deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.S. in Computer Science• May '21

Relevant Coursework
CS 200: Programming I
CS 240: Discrete Mathematics
CS 252: Introduction to Computer Engineering
CS 300: Programming II
CS 368: C++ Programming.
CS 368: Matlab Programming.
CS 354: Computer Organization and Programming
CS 400: Programming III (DS/Algos)
CS 506: Software Engineering
CS 540: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS 536: Intro-Progm Langs&Compilers
CS 537: Operating Systems
CS 564: Database Mgt Systems
CS 577: Introduction to Algorithms
CS 638: Agile and Scrum methodologies
CS 639: Data Management for Data Science

Experience

Software Engineer II - Amazon

Sep 2023 - Present

  • Developing a state-of-the-art architecture for Amazon Health's notifications engine.

Software Engineer - Amazon

Mar 2022 - Sep 2023

  • Led the transformation of the pharmacy detail page, enhancing performance by 35%.
  • Designed and implemented the Autorefill feature, attracting ~2 million daily views.
  • Played a key role in operational excellence and deployment process optimization.
  • Automated security risk patching, significantly reducing on-call workload.

Software Engineer - Brightspot

Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Integrated multiple third-party APIs for customized client solutions.
  • Developed and enhanced web builds, including data migration to Brightspot CMS.
  • Maintained strong client relationships, ensuring requirement fulfillment.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Madison, WI

CS 540: Artificial Intelligence • Dec '20 - Present

  • Selected based on proficiency in the course and its concepts.
  • Holding office hours, review sessions and small group discussions to assist students with concepts of heap, stack, cache and assembly/C code.
  • Coordinating with the professor to enhance the skill level of students in this subject
  • Held office hours, review sessions and developed practice problems for over 500 students.

Tautum Games LLC, California

Software Engineer Intern • Jul '20 - Sep '20

  • Was 1 of the 10 interns who were part of the company’s flagship product MIKROS SDK.
  • Fixed various failing API’s, which increased the accuracy of the application from 15% to 85%.
  • Created documentation and wrote modular, secure, well-tested code with various unit tests for SDK in C#.
  • Led a team of interns and conducted weekly code reviews which helped them in achieving their weekly sprint targets.
  • Used agile and scrum methodology to build the features of phones that combine social and banking functionality to deliver an exciting player experience.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Madison, WI

CS 354: Systems Programming • Aug '20 - Present

  • Selected based on proficiency in the course and its concepts.
  • Holding office hours, review sessions and small group discussions to assist students with concepts of heap, stack, cache and assembly code
  • Coordinating with the professor to enhance the skill level of students in this subject
  • Held office hours, review sessions and developed practice problems for over 500 students.

Project With CapitalOne

CS 354: Systems Programming • Aug '20 - Present

  • Created a serverless financial literacy web application with Capital One’s Engineering team, to help college students with budgeting/Financial problems (Demo: https://capitaltwo.ga/). Built this application as a Capstone project (CS639).
  • Examined risk assumptions, profit structure and created a scalable application using business agility and scrum principles. Technologies: JIRA, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Cloudflare.

Skills

These are some of the skills I am most familiar with. However, these are just estimates and not an assertion. I am always in the lookout to broaden my reach and learn more.

  • C++
  • C
  • Java
  • HTML5
  • Node
  • Bootstrap
  • Javascript
  • Python
  • Swift

Awards

Best Educator/Student tool

Awarded at HackMadison '20' for Collabwatch• Madison,WI

UW Madison ACM-ICPC Coding Contest (2019)

Participated in a day long coding competition against UW Madison’s top coding talent Placed 6th overall.• Madison, WI

TCS Codevita Global Championship.

• Placed 50th out of approx. 73,000 students