About

Batakrishna Sahu is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer at Amazon with over 3 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is an expert in building highly scalable systems and has a strong background in Software Engineering, Search, Spark, testing, Microservices, Backend, and Python. Currently working at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer I, Batakrishna is responsible for working on Search Engine Technologies. He is involved in designing and developing scalable search solutions that can handle millions of queries per second. He also works on improving the relevance of search results, optimizing search performance, and enhancing the user experience. Prior to joining Amazon, Batakrishna worked as a Systems Engineer at TCS. During his tenure, he worked in the DeskHelp backend & intelligence team to build a chatbot to provide IT support. He also implemented REST APIs for different microservices and unit tested them. Additionally, he built a spark pipeline to fetch, preprocess and ingest data into a graph database. Batakrishna has also worked as a Student Developer at Google Summer of Code. During this time, he contributed to the Nuitka project, which is an open-source Python compiler. He optimized CPython built-ins using the TDD approach in Nuitka to improve its performance. As a result, the compile-time of Nuitka reduced by 20% while working with CPython built-ins. He also implemented new testing modes in the Nuitka testing suite to make testing Nuitka faster. Batakrishna holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Sambalpur University, where he graduated in 2020. He is a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a strong desire to learn and grow. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to expand his knowledge and skills.