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SAI LIKHIT RENIKUNTA

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI platforms

StripeUniversity of Central MissouriCalifornia, USA5 Years ExperienceMid Level

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Backend/AI engineer currently at Stripe building Minions, an internal LLM-based developer agent that automates code generation, bug fixes, and PR creation. They combine strong production LLM architecture skills with reliability engineering, having improved routine PR merge times by ~40-45%, lowered post-merge bug rates by 12%, and previously built an invoice-processing pipeline that achieved 91% straight-through processing in a B2B payments context.

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Key Strengths

  • Built production LLM agent workflows end-to-end
  • Strong backend/API engineering for AI systems
  • Scalable event-driven architecture design
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management across engineering, PM, and DevOps
  • Production RAG and tool-using agent expertise
  • Data-driven ownership of latency and uptime metrics
  • Improved routine PR merge time from 3.2 days to 1.8 days
  • Reduced post-merge bug rate by 12% on agent-assisted PRs
  • Drove developer satisfaction with 78% reporting reduced repetitive work
  • Methodical production incident response and root-cause analysis
  • Built reliable document/invoice extraction pipelines for messy real-world inputs
  • Designed robust validation and error-handling patterns for payments workflows
  • Achieved 91% straight-through processing in invoice automation

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Experience

Software EngineerStripe · Jan 2025 – Present
Software EngineerMeta · Jan 2020 – Jul 2023

Education

University of Central Missourimaster, Computer Science (2025)

Languages

English

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