# Saisaran Kidambi

> Software Engineer

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

Hi! I’m a recent Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) grad  from UC Berkeley. My interests include robotics, machine learning, cloud computing, and networking. Please feel free to reach me at skidambi@berkeley.edu.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Convera
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Developer on the Convera Connect team building a platform to enhance customer support efficiency, increasing task completion per metric cycle and reducing average task completion time to improve SLA compliance
- Recognized for initiative, removing blockers, and delivering complex projects with high velocity across multiple teams
- Spearheaded the RBAC project for the Convera Connect Platform, integrating Okta and Cognito for federated authentication and automating policy generation, reducing setup time by 50%
- Engineered VGS integration to securely transfer and tokenize sensitive customer data (e.g., IDs, bank accounts), ensuring SOC 2 compliance
- Reduced onboarding email wait time by deploying and designing a Kafka topic to automate user registration tracking, enhancing efficiency and customer experience
- Streamlined customer setup time by 5x by implementing WalkMe and Jotform POCs, enhancing self-service adoption and onboarding efficiency
- Reduced build and test times by ~25% by switching to Rust-based bundlers and compilers, improving developer productivity and CI/CD efficiency

### Software Engineer Intern @ Lacework
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Revamped the CSPM report generation process by leveraging NextJS to provide 2 user-friendly report options for customers
- Added a new microservice to the Lacework customer experience utilizing Kubernetes to handle template generation calls
- Constructed CodeFresh pipelines for performance testing and automated management of service labels for use in Helm Charts

### Software Engineer Intern @ Nutanix
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
- Built an automated monitoring tool that gathered Nutanix File Server info to generate reports displayed on an Apache web server
- Improved QA Engineers’ efficiency by up to 5 minutes per debugging task (~15%) by aggregating stats in one area
- Added a 'QoS' variable for shares on file servers and applied it in a smart scale up feature which sped up scale ups by 7%

### Quantum CubeSat Software Team Member @ Space Technologies At California (STAC)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Assembled a QubeSat with an onboard gyroscope to conduct experiments on the feasibility of NV gyroscope technology in space
- Designed a laser diode circuit board using SolidWorks and KiCAD as part of a NASA Sponsored and approved launch in Feb 2022
- Worked with Stanford PyCubed software and UART to enable communication between the Qubesat and ground radio

### Project Manager: Tailorbird Project @ PlexTech
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Led a team of 7 developers to create a contracting application using Tesseract and GraphQL for the renovation company Tailorbird
- Simplified the process for contractors to input measurements for a house by storing data in Amazon S3 buckets
- Created API endpoints for js functions to manage house entries and update changes in measurements for houses

### Automation Infrastructure Engineer Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Streamlined the installation process for Cumulus Linux on the NVIDIA Bluefield DPU through Docker containerization
- Developed network topologies and configuration scripts to create and render network simulations in frr configuration files
- Produced testing infrastructure and yaml renderings for networking protocols used in the testing of Cumulus Linux

### Academic Intern: Discrete Math and Probability @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Leading discussions to help over 50 students understand relevant topics including: Logic, Graph theory, Modular Arithmetic, Cryptography, and Probability and help design and develop a curriculum for virtual discussions. Additionally, I assist and teach students in all discussions as well staffing office hours.

### Academic Intern: Data Structures @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Supported biweekly sections of 100+ students to help reinforce core data structures concepts (e.g. asymptotics, linked lists, trees, searching/sorting algorithms, etc) and shaped course curriculum by developing relevant enrichment problems to help students master the subject.

### Workshop Instructor @ CodeDay
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I organized CodeDay LA, a 24-hour hackathon with 200+ attendees and secured free venue locations along with $1500 in monetary sponsorships and partnerships to fund and help with the event. Additionally, I directed workshops on game development in Unity to event attendees and created a simple ball-rolling game.


## Education
### Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saisaran-kidambi

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Last updated: 2026-03-22