Satish Divakarla
Principal Software Engineer at Shutterfly
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSatish Divakarla is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Greater Phoenix Area with 18+ years of experience delivering large-scale, cloud-native systems and data platforms. He has repeatedly driven cost and performance improvements—e.g., cutting storage costs by over 70% and improving backend performance by 25% while halving database license spend at Shutterfly. His background spans end-to-end data engineering, ETL, ML and analytics pipelines using Java, Python, Spark, AWS (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda), Hadoop ecosystems and Snowflake, reflecting both hands-on implementation and architecture leadership. Satish has applied ML in production for content moderation and sentiment analysis and designed canonical data models to onboard diverse educational customers. He combines a strong academic foundation (M.Tech IT) with practical experience across enterprise products at Oracle, Blackboard and startups, making him adept at bridging research, engineering and operational reliability. Colleagues would note his knack for cross-team collaboration and for turning exploratory analytics into production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, SSC at St. Francis De Sales High SchoolM.Tech Information Technology, M.Tech Information Technology at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreIntermediate M.P.C., Intermediate M.P.C. at Narayana Junior CollegeB. Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, B. Tech. Computer Science and Engineering at Saint Theressa Institute of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (11)
clustering-algorithm9
categorical9
k-modes9
categorical-data8
principal-component-analysis8
gaussian-mixture-models7
clustering6
python6
statsmodels5
scikit-learn4
prototypes4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SatishDivakarla/Spark_Kafka_Elastic
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
SatishDivakarla/ToxicCommentClassifier
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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