Satya Achanta

Senior Software Engineer

ITHAKA | Ann Arbor, MI | Nov 2019 - Present

• Act as a lead-minded engineer across admin portals, reporting workflows, and public APIs, owning ambiguous initiatives end to end.
• Contribute to company internal tools and improve developer experience through clearer repo conventions, onboarding support, and automation of development workflows.
• Led modernization by decomposing legacy services into AWS Lambda and Step Functions workflows, improving scalability and reducing operational overhead.
• Improved release velocity by 3x through AI-assisted development workflows that accelerated implementation, debugging, testing, and developer self-sufficiency.
• Applied AI-enabled engineering practices with Codex and Copilot for code scaffolding, refactoring, testing, and full-stack feature implementation.
• Created skills and instructions that helped AI tools understand repo conventions, generate tests in the team's style, and support onboarding.
• Encouraged responsible adoption of AI-assisted workflows and helped shape expectations for reviewing AI-generated code effectively.
• Drove engineering standards through clearer repo patterns, stronger testing practices, improved linting, and more consistent frontend architecture decisions.
• Partnered with product owners and stakeholders to shape technical roadmaps, identify delivery risks, and reduce execution bottlenecks.
• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Introduced a real-time feedback mechanism that reduced the customer feedback loop by 50%.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers through debugging support, design reviews, onboarding, and day-to-day technical guidance.

Software Engineer

Infor | Ann Arbor, MI | May 2015 - Nov 2019

• Built and maintained enterprise-grade applications for automotive clients using Angular and Java/Spring.
• Partnered with the Principal Architect to review designs, evaluate tradeoffs, and improve long-term maintainability across modules.
• Led frontend modernization across legacy Angular codebases, introducing linting and coding standards that improved consistency and reduced defects.
• Optimized data access layers using Hibernate and SQL to improve reporting performance and reliability.
• Contributed to Agile delivery and CI practices through automated testing and Jenkins pipelines.

Product Builder

Conceived, architected, and delivered a production-grade fantasy sports and MichCA platform experience, owning the product lifecycle from ideation and UX design through deployment and ongoing optimization.

• Designed a serverless full-stack architecture with Next.js, Prisma, and Neon Postgres, reducing match-result computation from 30 minutes to 15 seconds.
• Built core product capabilities including admin workflows, leaderboards, database design, Excel ingestion flows, and a mobile-responsive application experience.
• Developed admin workflows for managing users, teams, and weekly operations, reducing operational effort for league administration.
• Designed data models for historical fantasy picks by user/week, leaderboard and scoring history, and team/user relationships to support downstream analytics and AI-based analysis.
• Built a production-ready AI analysis feature using the OpenAI API to evaluate users' historical picks and generate strengths, weaknesses, recommendations, and relative standings.
• Aggregated structured historical data from the database and sent it to the OpenAI API for LLM-generated analysis over structured inputs.
• Continuously monitored performance, iterated on APIs and data models, and optimized the platform for sustainable growth and low operational overhead.