Sai Cheemalapati
Staff Software Engineer at Gradient Health
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Cheemalapati is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling, currently based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. He spent a decade at Google advancing Earth Engine’s imagery and geometry computation and building the open-source infrastructure that generates and publishes Google Cloud client libraries across multiple languages. Sai brings hands-on expertise in API client generation, release automation, and cloud services—evident from contributions to high-profile repos like googleapis and google-cloud-go where he improved deterministic generation, versioning, and BigQuery logging/timestamp behavior. Early work as an Android developer and a cofounder of FarmShots (acquired by Syngenta) gives him a strong product instinct and UI-to-backend fluency. He combines production-grade engineering with meticulous documentation and testing practices, and often focuses on tricky edge cases such as authentication audience handling and timezone correctness.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Duke University
Telugu
Github Skills (43)
api-rest10
google-api10
javascript10
client-library10
mobile-development10
bigquery10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
protocol-buffers10
api-client10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/gapic-generator
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Tools for generating API client libraries from API Service Configuration descriptions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 365 PRs, 160 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sai primarily focused on code generation tools for API client libraries, making several changes to core classes within the `googleapis/gapic-generator` repository. Their contributions include fixing typos, improving code style, incorporating path templates, updating python code generation to match gax updates, adding descriptions to method/message fields, and generating dummy proto classes. They demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's architecture, particularly in the context of API client library generation.
api-clientapigrpcconfiguration-serviceclient-libraries
googleapis/google-api-python-client
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
🐍 The official Python client library for Google's discovery based APIs.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sai primarily focused on updating and regenerating documentation within the repository. Their commits involved modifications to HTML files related to the API documentation. The changes reflect updates to various API endpoints and data structures, ensuring the documentation accurately reflects the current state of the codebase. This included refreshing documentation across multiple versions of the API.
api-clientgoogle-apipythongoogleclient-library
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