Saketh Getla

Software Engineer

Australian citizen passionate about software engineering, skilled in problem-solving, coding, and developing efficient, stable applications. I enjoy building things.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Yellowbox

Smart workplace lockers, IoT, smart workplace technology

08/2025 – PresentSydney, NSW
Achievements/Tasks
  • Built an AI support agent that lets the Ops team diagnose and fix issues without engineering help.
  • Built a REST API platform with automated documentation and user-data ingestion.
  • Built AI skills (e.g. Figma, Learn) so non-technical staff can use AI in their workflows.

Software Engineer

Luxury Escapes

08/2022 – 02/2025Sydney, NSW
Achievements/Tasks
  • Led the backend architecture for the company-wide migration from SFMC to Braze, drastically reducing tech debt. (GCP, dbt, SQL, Postgres, Node)
  • Architected real-time ingestion of website user events into Braze, so users are notified instantly based on their activity. (Snowplow, GTM, dbt)
  • Designed a deal recommendation algorithm based on users' site and marketing activity, increasing click-through rate and revenue. (SQL, dbt)
  • Built the customer preferences and one-click unsubscribe pages, and an email designer and scheduler for the marketing team. (React, Redux, Node, Postgres, Redis, BullMQ)
  • Migrated our microservices from Heroku to AWS, cutting operating costs and improving security. Owner of the user-data sync microservice. (AWS, Postgres, Redis, Prisma)
  • On-call support/ops member, reducing downtime and defending against attacks. Onboarded and trained new engineers. (New Relic, Opsgenie)

Junior Software Engineer

Luxury Escapes

09/2022 – 06/2023Sydney, NSW
Achievements/Tasks
  • Moved data sync from cron jobs to an event-driven system. Owner of a microservice syncing product updates to the marketing catalogue. (SQS, Redis, BullMQ)
  • Built an ETL pipeline for website user events and wrote SQL audiences for marketing campaigns. (SFTP, SFMC, SQL)

Interests

Machine learning Full-stack web development BJJ Fantasy/sci-fi books

Skills

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactRedux SolidJSNode.jsGraphQLExpress PythonPostgreSQLSQLiteMongoDB dbt GCPAWSSQS HerokuCloudflareNginxDocker RedisBullMQPrisma CircleCICI/CDJestNew Relic BrazeLinuxVimLua Hugging FaceTensorFlow 2PyTorchFlask CursorMCPRaspberry Pi C++JavaWebRTC

Education

Computer Science

University of New South Wales

02/2019 – 02/2022Sydney, Australia
Majors
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Project: cell mitosis detection using neural networks

Personal Projects

Home cleaning marketplace

  • Full-stack app connecting cleaners with customers. todu.getla.me (React, Redux, Node, Prisma, Postgres, Redis, BullMQ, Cloudflare)

Web development (01/2020 – 02/2025)

  • Portfolio website in React. sakethgetla.com
  • Dijkstra and A* pathfinding in React.js vs SolidJS to compare speed.
  • MERN stack apps and Express + SQLite backends.

Machine learning (2018 – 2022)

  • Deep Q-Learning agent that learns to chase and eat food.
  • Bidirectional LSTMs with GloVe vectors predicting product ratings from reviews.
  • Neural network from scratch in NumPy; DeepDream and style transfer experiments.

Hackathons

Email template creator page (04/2024)

Lets marketers design emails from components and templates. (React, Postgres, Node)

Marketing copy optimiser (04/2023)

Uses ChatGPT to write marketing copy based on what performed best previously. (React, Hugging Face, Node, OpenAI)