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

Technologies

Python
React
Swift
Xcode
Flutter
Framer
Figma
Android
TensorFlow
PyTorch

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 internal web applications for UIC faculty, including HR Recruitment, Travel Request, PhD Evaluation, and Research Expenditure portals.

LaravelPHPReactNodeGraphQLMySQLDocker
Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Software Engineer@Wednesday Solutions

Delivered full-stack web projects, improved test coverage by 40%, and built CRON jobs for automated workflows.

ReactReduxNodeGraphQLPostgreSQLDockerAWS
May 2019 – Jun 2019
iOS Engineer Intern@ReArk

Built an iOS AR app for viewing 3D models and migrated a Unity AR application to native ARKit.

SwiftARKitUnity

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