Sujith Katakam
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSujith Katakam is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems across startups and large technology firms. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NC State and has led Kubernetes platform strategy and tooling at Robinhood, enabling application teams to deploy reliably without wrestling with cluster complexity. His background includes hands-on ownership of infrastructure as code, resilient AWS services, DB migrations and automation at Clari, and early full-stack contributions during internships at Citrix and S&P Capital IQ. Known for blending deep orchestration expertise with pragmatic security controls (Vault, Consul) and automation (Terraform, Chef, Jenkins), he pushes for long-term maintainability and organizational consistency. He also contributes backend improvements to open-source projects like Expertiza, showing a steady interest in educational tooling and code integration. Now at OpenAI working on supercomputing, he brings a rare mix of production-grade platform design and startup-era, boots-on-the-ground problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Osmania University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
rails-app10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
peer-to-peer9
peer9
st8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Sujith's contributions focus on modifying the `User` and `ReviewResponseMap` models, indicating a focus on back-end logic. They removed a password check for logging in and merged a branch, which shows code integration and updates. The user also implemented changes for self-review functionality within the application, modifying controllers, views, and the routing configuration.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
sujithktkm/csc517-classPortal
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:102 commits, 27 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 month
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