Telangana Techie Who Was Born Without A Hand Bag On Amazon ₹50 LPA: Meet Sai Bharath

Sai Bharath was born without a left hand but went on to fulfill his dreams. He works as a software development engineer at Amazon in Hyderabad. Now he has become SDE II, which means a step forward in his career. His reported package exceeds ₹50 LPA.

According to a social media post, Bharath has completed his B Tech. in Computer Science from NIT Warangal, Telangana, in 2023. His journey combines undergraduate activities, internships and professional experience in software development. He offers an example of determination without his accomplishments diminishing his physical fitness.

At Amazon, Bharath is working on Amazon Pay as a standalone application. The work involves presenting Amazon Pay independently of the Amazon Shopping app.

According to his LinkedIn profile, his role includes software design, adding additional responsibilities to his career path. In January 2024, he started working as a software engineer at Amazon.

Bharath announced his new status and said he felt happy and grateful. He described his technology journey as one involving determination and planning.

“A great journey of navigating exciting technologies, a journey of courage and strategy. Many thanks to my manager Anamika Gangwar for believing in me and assigning great and complex projects,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

The post has now gone viral and has nearly 7,000 likes.

Career before Amazon

Before joining Amazon full-time, Bharath worked at Saras Analytics in Hyderabad. He worked as a software engineer there from July to November 2023.

His work focused on systems operating behind applications. Configured connections between software systems and built connectors. He also worked with Java, a programming language used in software development.

Bharath gained experience through internships while studying. He worked as an SDE intern at Amazon from May to July 2022. This internship was based in Chennai and followed a hybrid work arrangement.

Helped automate internal team tasks using extensions, JavaScript, and Amazon Web Services. He described the internship as a great experience.

This was followed by another internship at BabyCloud, associated with Adwaita Educare Private Limited. Bharath worked remotely as a backend developer intern from December 2022 to February 2023.

His tasks included working with Amazon Web Services and handling data from the front end of the application. These experiences covered various parts of software development before his graduation.

Besides work, Bharath served as CSEA Secretary at NIT Warangal. He held the position from October 2020 to May 2023. He participated in events and helped organize them, enthusiastically describing the experiences.