Sirisha Cherala
Senior Software Engineer at Block
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSirisha Cherala is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 7 years of experience building scalable systems at companies including Block and Amazon, grounded in a master's in Computer Science from Illinois Tech. She combines strong algorithmic curiosity and a practical engineering mindset—she frequently asks why an algorithm works and explores alternatives, which has driven performance wins like a 41% improvement in scheduler throughput and 75% SQL tuning gains. Her background spans end-to-end web and backend development, ML-driven data analysis, and production feature delivery for consumer devices (Fire TV), reflecting fluency across stacks from C and Java to Python and React. Intrinsically motivated to demystify black-box ML and deep learning models, she pairs that technical focus with volunteer work and interests in neuroscience and psychology, adding human-centered perspective to her engineering.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sri Chaitanya Mahila Kalasala,HyderabadMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree (Honours) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree (Honours) Electronics and Communications Engineering at SASTRA universityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
scherala/365DaysOfCoding
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
scherala/LearningML
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
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