Summary
Sailakshmi Pisupati is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building low-latency, cost-efficient distributed systems for streaming, ETL, and large-scale event ingestion. She has shipped production pipelines at companies like SparkPost/MessageBird—where she led a Recipient Verification product and cut search costs via an Elasticsearch migration—and at Qualtrics, where she powered session-replay analytics with Kafka and AWS. Deeply interested in audio/video streaming and stream processing (Kafka, Flink), she’s also implementing a Raft-based distributed chat as a side project, reflecting a strong systems-first approach inspired by Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Ambitious to grow into a staff engineering role, she combines hands-on architecture, performance optimization, and mentorship to deliver high-impact, observable systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Information Technology, Engineer's Degree Information Technology at Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College,University of Mumbai
UMBC
English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil