Surya Cherukuri
Sunnyvale
Summary
Passionate and results-driven Software Developer with a strong focus on building scalable, maintainable, and well-documented backend systems. Experienced in both collaborative, cross-functional team environments and independently driving projects end to end. Excited to contribute to a product-driven organization where engineering excellence and impact meet.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Walmart
07.2024 - Current
- Engineered a scalable and high-throughput Crawl Dispatcher service to intelligently route competitor URLs based on domain, page type, and crawl type; optimized to handle ~110 transactions per second across 11 domains, 5 page types, and 8 crawl types.
- Refactored and modernized a 26K-line backend codebase, improving modularity and testability; increased unit test coverage from 30% to 90% by upgrading libraries and introducing better testing practices.
- Built an automated regression testing tool to support migration to a new crawler architecture, enabling side-by-side crawl result comparisons and report generation to validate system behavior and data integrity.
Software Developer
Amazon
06.2020 - 03.2023
- Designed and implemented API specifications to integrate Garage devices into the Ring App, improving success rate from 50% to 90% by analyzing pilot test results and addressing critical edge cases (e.g., error handling, timeouts, and fail-safe logic to prevent garage doors from being left open).
- Led cross-functional collaboration with Android, iOS, QA, and backend teams to launch support for Genie Garages on the Ring App, driving feature delivery end to end.
- Developed a scalable backend system for an incentive program that credited Amazon gift card balances to eligible users; designed the solution to handle multiple incentive types and support ~400K customers in a single run.
- Built a frontend widget service to dynamically determine eligibility for Amazon Prime, Grocery, and Fresh deliveries based on ZIP code.
- Optimized AWS Lambda resource allocation by simulating production traffic in a beta environment and analyzing latency vs. memory trade-offs, resulting in a 50% memory reduction with no performance impact—yielding ~$30K/year in cost savings.
Software Engineer
Samsung Research Institute
07.2017 - 07.2018
- Implemented Working Screen feature for meeting room solution to browse through opened files and apps in a FLIP device
- Performed POC on file sharing and event synchronization between two flip devices on the same network using TCP/IP protocol to send/receive files and to synchronize the actions on both flip devices
Software Developer Intern
AdmitKard
02.2017 - 06.2017
- Designed a model for student applicationʼs classification (Admit or Reject) using about 1M student applicationʼs to train the dataset
- Achieved an accuracy of 85%
- Built a tool to monitor the changes on the webpages at regular intervals of time and send a weekly report using cron job
- Monitored ~20,000 university webpages
- Decreasing 60 hours each week in manual monitoring of the webpages
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ05-2020
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
05-2017
Skills
- Python (Django)
- C
- Java (Spring)
- SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Cloud (AWS, GCP)
- JavaScript (ES6, React, Nodejs)
- Typescript
- HTML/ CSS
- CI/CD
Timeline
Software Engineer
Walmart
07.2024 - Current
Software Developer
Amazon
06.2020 - 03.2023
Software Engineer
Samsung Research Institute
07.2017 - 07.2018
Software Developer Intern
AdmitKard
02.2017 - 06.2017
Master of Science - Software Engineering
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
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