Resume

Summit Singh Thakur

Senior Software Engineer at Oracle

I turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into reliable systems and products, across AI, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer experience.

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Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer · Cloud & AI

    Oracle

    Jul 2021 - Present

    Austin, Texas

    Engineering cloud systems and developer tooling where reliability, operational clarity, and thoughtful automation matter at enterprise scale.

    • Built reusable Terraform modules and Helm deployment frameworks that standardized OCI environments across 8+ engineering teams, cutting environment provisioning time by 50%
    • Developed Python and OCI SDK cost optimization tooling that reduced compute costs by 22% and saved $10K+ per month
    • Designed Java/Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs for Oracle Primavera/P6, reducing production support incidents by 25%
    • Automated CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, cutting deployment time by 40%
    • OCI
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • Python
    • Java
    • Spring Boot
    • Distributed systems
    • AI/ML
  2. Co-Founder & CTO

    TruckBux (now ZIKI Kitchens)

    Jan 2018 - Jul 2021

    Austin, Texas

    Co-founded and led engineering for a $6M-funded food-tech startup, scaling the team from 2 to 12 developers and launching customer, vendor, and admin products.

    • Architected Java/Spring microservices on AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS) with Firebase auth, supporting 10x monthly order growth while cutting infrastructure costs by 40%
    • Unified native Android/iOS apps into a single React Native codebase, cutting release cycles by 50%
    • Integrated DoorDash and Postmates APIs, increasing delivery revenue by 60% across 50+ vendors
    • Built API versioning, usage analytics, and Metabase KPI dashboards that supported investor updates and a $100K pre-seed raise
    • Java
    • Spring
    • AWS
    • React Native
    • Firebase
    • Product engineering
    • Leadership

Education

  1. M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

    The University of Texas at Austin

    Graduate study - Present

    Austin, Texas

    Graduate work spanning machine learning, deep learning, planning, and the design of intelligent systems.

    • Machine learning
    • Deep learning
    • Natural language processing
    • AI systems
  2. B.S. in Computer Science

    Drexel University

    Undergraduate - Completed

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Computer science foundation shaped through software engineering, research, and hands-on product building.

    • Computer science
    • Software engineering
    • Algorithms
    • Systems