# Sai Pinapati

> Staff Engineer at Reddit, Inc.

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

Interests: working with thoughtful people and building durable businesses

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco
Personalized homefeed ranking and recommendations for new interactive formats like community games 

2023 - 2025 Developer Platform (0 -> 1)

### Software Engineer @ Slack
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco
Developer Platform, early team: built secure runtime, multi-tenant sandboxing and storage infra for running Slack apps at scale

### Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Tweet Extensibility: new initiatives to unlock creative expression for users and advertisers.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Cupertino
Founding Engineer, Amazon Go
Designed and built scalable backend services to process real-time video streams from retail stores, construct a coherent picture of where customers are in the store and maintain their identities during the shopping sessions.

Founding Engineer, Echo Frames
Built calling and messaging product infra with an interdisciplinary team, thoroughly enjoyed exploring a new line of consumer products.

### Engineering Intern @ Prezi
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
Growth Team - built data pipelines and developed ranking algorithms to surface engaging templates for onboarding users.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Presto
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto
It was called Elacarte (YC ‘10) back then; built Menu Editor Platform - enabling restaurant owners to compose their menus and perform seamless over-the-air updates to tablets in restaurants.

### Analyst @ S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Hyderābād Area, India
Built tools to find actionable insights in Capital IQ - S&P’s financial data platform.


## Education
### Masters in Computer Science
University of Florida

### Bachelor's
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neuronspike
- Portfolio: http://neuronspike.com
- GitHub: http://github.com/neuronspike

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Last updated: 2026-04-12