SK
Saksham
Khatod

SDE @ AWS

Currently

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services

4.0

MS GPA

1+

Yrs @ AWS

M.S.

Comp Sci

Seattle

Washington

Cloud · Distributed Systems · Full Stack · LLMs

Background

About

I'm a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, where I build and scale cloud infrastructure serving millions of customers.

I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago with a 4.0 GPA, and a B.Tech in Computer Engineering from NMIMS Mumbai. My graduate work spanned distributed systems, machine learning, and AR/VR.

I'm drawn to problems at the intersection of systems and intelligence — whether that's designing distributed pipelines, building full-stack products, or exploring what LLMs can do when given real infrastructure to work with.

Distributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureMachine LearningFull StackAR / VRLLMs

Technologies

PythonPython
Next.jsNext.js
TypeScriptTypeScript
GraphQLGraphQL
ReduxRedux
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
RustRust
DockerDocker
KubernetesKubernetes
AWSAWS
RedisRedis
ScalaScala
SwiftSwift
FlutterFlutter
FigmaFigma
PyTorchPyTorch

Career

Experience

2024 – Present
Software Development Engineer@AWSCurrent

Building and scaling cloud infrastructure and services at Amazon Web Services.

ECSEC2KinesisLambdaS3IAMRoute53CloudWatch
Feb 2023 – Dec 2023
Graduate Assistant@UIC College of Engineering

Built and maintained several sophisticated web applications used by UIC faculty and staff — including Internal HR Recruitment, Travel Request, PhD Evaluation, and Research Expenditure portals.

LaravelPHPReactNodeGraphQLApolloSequelizeMySQLDocker
Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Software Engineer@Wednesday Solutions

Worked on several frontend and backend web projects, implementing comprehensive testing strategies that improved coverage by 40% and building CRON jobs for scheduled tasks.

ReactReduxNodeGraphQLSequelizePostgreSQLDockerAWS

Background

Education

University of Illinois, Chicago

M.S. Computer Science

2022 – 2023

GPA 4.0 / 4.0

NMIMS Mukesh Patel School of Technology

B.Tech. Computer Engineering

2017 – 2021

Work

Projects

01

SLAM

Real-time area mapping from video using SLAM. Feature extraction with OpenCV, RANSAC for camera pose estimation.

PythonOpenCVPygame
02

TweetBot

Full-stack social media app with GraphQL API, Apollo Server, MikroORM migrations, and PostgreSQL.

TypeScriptReactGraphQLPostgreSQL
03

Distributed Graph Computation

MapReduce graph comparison using Scala/Guava, computes node & edge similarity scores. 80% accuracy.

ScalaHadoopAWS EMR
04

MitM Attack Simulation

Parallelized Random Walks via Apache Spark analyzing graph traceability. 86% accuracy, 100% attack success.

ScalaApache SparkAWS EMR
05

Police Thief Game

Graph-based game with Akka HTTP RESTful APIs, two auto-play strategies with performance analytics.

ScalaAkka HTTPAWS EC2