Summary
Saket Jajoo is a Software Engineer III based in Seattle with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and security-first systems. Currently on Google’s GKE AI Runtime team, he co-developed Pod Snapshots (public preview) and previously engineered Image Streaming to cut image pull latency across millions of nodes, work he presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025. His background spans fast-paced product and security roles at Databricks and Cloudera, where he reduced serverless Spark latencies, migrated RPC stacks to gRPC, and automated vulnerability scanning and SBOM integrations. Saket blends performance optimization with pragmatic security—he also patched a critical Spark request vulnerability and built FedRAMP-compliant SecOps for AWS GovCloud. A UI-to-system thinker, he started with data/platform internships and graduate teaching in computer security, giving him both practical production chops and teaching-level clarity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
HSC PCM + Computer Science, HSC PCM + Computer Science at Prakash Higher Secondary School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
SSC, SSC at Symbiosis School - India
English, Hindi, Marathi, Marwari, Gujarati