# Sai Krishna Reddy Lakkam

> Founding Engineer at Salient

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saikrishnareddylakkam

Building the best Voice AI at Salient. Interested in using AI to make the world a better place.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Salient
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ United Airlines
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
• Led the effort to significantly cut down TeamCity build times from 40 minutes to a
brief span, streamlining the process.
• Leading migration from older TIBCO monolith to Microservices based architecture
using AWS reducing Technical Debt.
• Designed Microservice based architecture and optimized for latency.
• Implemented caches and reduced latency and costs by 2x for data APIs interfacing
DynamoDB.
• Owned and operated a high-availability Kafka cluster, proactively monitoring metrics
and implementing fixes to ensure smooth data delivery for critical applications.
• Mentored juniors and actively involved in code reviews, product design, technical
guidance and mentorship.
• Responsible for finding and implementing fixes for bugs and other features in
production.
• Setup DataDog with Kubernetes to monitor performance, logs, abnormalities and
improve observability.

### Software Developer @ Bidgely
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Go-to-guy for all things performance from Application and AWS to Distributed
Architecture.
• Modified architecture improving performance
• Profiled various microservices using Async Profiler and improved some of them for
up to 5x by reducing CPU and Wall time.
• Reconfigured nodes in Cassandra and improved peak throughput by 20% and
reduced top 95% latency.
• Improved Machine Learning inference service by 4x using caches and reducing
network dependency.
• Reduced 1 Billion DB calls to Cassandra by implementing a Cache storing DB output.
• Implemented batch processing ETL in Spark calling existing Java code as UDF that
improved the throughput by 2x.
• Modified scaling formulas of the load balancer in AWS for ELTs to match SLAs and
was responsible for the Scaling of EC2 machines for APIs.
• Reconfigured Jenkins for faster builds and helped reduce AWS cost in multiple facets
by updating old machines and managing data in S3.
• Setup parallel processing in spark and AWS EMR using Apache airflow and optimized
cost by 50%.


## Education
### Master of Technology - MTech in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sai-krishna-reddy-lakkam-6b6554147

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Last updated: 2026-04-10