Nikhil Murali
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNikhil Murali is a Software Development Engineer II with nine years of experience designing resilient, multi-tenant orchestration platforms and distributed control planes at AWS scale. He currently architects Kubernetes-based resource management and lifecycle systems for AWS Neuron, powering roughly 80% of the ML development stacks while driving multi-region high-availability and observability improvements (including a 70% P99 read latency reduction on an OpenSearch layer). His background spans telecom 5G orchestration—building a DSL-driven control plane for single-click deployments—to governance of widely used SDKs for Alexa, where he ensured API integrity across large developer ecosystems. Equally comfortable in low-level systems work and developer experience, he mentors engineers and codifies reliability standards that prevent regressions across global services. An early contributor to the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python, he combines practical open-source experience with rigorous platform engineering and a math-inflected analytical approach from his dual CS/MSc training.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (4)
sdk10
api-design10
python10
documentation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-python
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
The Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python helps you get a skill up and running quickly, letting you focus on skill logic instead of boilerplate code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 14 reviews, 176 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil's commits primarily involved the initial setup and development of the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Python. This included the creation of core components such as request and exception handlers, and request/response interceptors, showcasing a focus on backend logic and API structure. The user was responsible for setting up the foundational elements needed for developers to build Alexa skills. They also contributed to documentation, demonstrating an understanding of how to explain and present the library to users.
alexa-skills-kitpythonsdkalexa-sdkalexa
alexa-samples/skill-sample-python-highlowgame
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
The high low game is a game where the player tries to guess the target number between 1 to 100. After each incorrect guess, the player is informed if the target number is higher or lower than their current guess. This continues until the target number is guessed or the player gives up. This sample Alexa Skill is written in Python and demonstrates the use of session and persistent attributes.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
python
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.