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saketh jakkula

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Lead Staff Software Engineer at General Electric who migrated Trino to EKS, cutting query latency 3–5x.

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At General Electric, I led the migration of a large-scale data platform from Hive+LLAP on EMR to Trino on Amazon EKS. The migration improved query latency by 3–5x and reduced infrastructure costs by about 50%.

I also designed and delivered a FinOps dashboard that provided visibility into cloud cost trends and supported data-driven infrastructure spending decisions, resulting in $1M+ in annual cost savings. My work includes AWS infrastructure architecture, vulnerability remediation, and monitoring and logging.

Previously, at Amazon Web Services, I supported customer cloud adoption and modernization, automated infrastructure provisioning, and built deployment pipelines. Earlier, at UnitedHealth Group (Optum) and Zensar Technologies, I worked on Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and Linux and VMware infrastructure.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Staff Software Engineer

Current

General Electric

Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Led AWS infrastructure architecture and implementation using Terraform and IaC practices, improving scalability and resilience. Designed a FinOps dashboard resulting in $1M+ annual cost savings and led migration of a large-scale data platform to Trino on Amazon EKS.

AWS Terraform Infrastructure as Code SRE FinOps Trino Amazon EKS Monitoring Logging Security

Cloud Consultant

Amazon Web Services

Jun 2020 - Jul 2023 (3 years 1 month)

Solved complex application deployment issues and guided customers on AWS best practices. Automated infrastructure provisioning using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform, and built pipelines for application deployment.

AWS AWS CDK CloudFormation Terraform Docker Kubernetes CI CD VPC

Senior Data Engineering Analyst

UnitedHealth Group

Nov 2016 - May 2020 (3 years 6 months)

Containerized applications using Docker and developed Helm charts for Kubernetes clusters. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automated installation processes using Chef cookbooks.

Docker Kubernetes Helm Rancher Jenkins Git GitHub Terraform Chef Foreman

Systems Engineer (Linux)

Zensar Technologies

Dec 2013 - Oct 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Administered HP-UX and RHEL Linux systems, managed VMware infrastructure, and automated operational tasks using shell scripts and cron jobs. Experienced in incident and change management processes.

Linux HP UX RHEL VMWare Shell Scripting LVM Incident Management Change Management