Preetham Methuku
Software Engineer II at Uber
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPreetham Methuku is a Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building data infrastructure and storage platform services, currently on the engineering team at Uber after two productive stints at Microsoft. He combines a strong academic foundation—B.Tech in CS from IIT Bhubaneswar with a top-tier GPA and a CS B.S. from UCLA—with hands-on backend and frontend work across production systems and open-source projects. At Microsoft he shipped a self-learning chatbot as an intern that earned a PPO, and on GitHub he has contributed both algorithmic solutions in Go and UX enhancements to the widely used Reddit Enhancement Suite. Known for deep learning curiosity and scalable system design, he brings cross-stack fluency from low-level algorithm implementation to improving user-facing experiences. Based in Hyderabad, he blends rigorous problem-solving with product-minded engineering to reduce operational load and improve developer-facing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.65 (Final CGPA), Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.65 (Final CGPA) at IIT BhubaneswarIntermediate, MPC, 9.85, Intermediate, MPC, 9.85 at Narayana Junior CollegeSSC, 9.8, SSC, 9.8 at Sri Chaitanya Childrens Academy
Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
go10
firefox-addon10
reddit10
chrome-extension10
data-structure10
solution9
html9
hacking9
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rahulsain/Hackerrank_30daysOFcode
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
30 days of code solution in C++/JAVA/C/Python/JavaScript/C#
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Preetham primarily contributed solutions to HackerRank coding challenges within the repository. Their work involved implementing code in Go for various algorithmic problems. Specific tasks included developing solutions for challenges related to topics like power calculation, divisor sums, and string palindromes, and a basic generic array implementation, demonstrating proficiency in problem-solving and basic Go programming concepts. Minor error fixes were also implemented.
hackerrank-30dayschallangepythoncppjavascript30-days-of-code
honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Reddit Enhancement Suite
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Preetham primarily focused on enhancing the Reddit Enhancement Suite's functionality and user experience. They addressed issues related to retrieving user information, implementing a feature to notify users of edited posts, and adding a custom filter for spoiler content. The user also refined the user interface by preventing unnecessary "jump to add comment" links and ensuring comment collapse functionality.
enhancement-suiteenhancementedge-extensionfirefox-extensionfirefox-addon
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