IIIT Dharwad graduate Aditya Arepalli moved from a software engineering role at Riverbed Technology in Bengaluru to an AI master’s at the University at Buffalo before joining AWS in Seattle. A social media post claims his compensation is worth ₹1.5 crore.
From IIIT Dharwad to software engineering
Sai Venkata Aditya Arepalli, a graduate of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, has built a technology career spanning India and the United States before securing a software engineering role at Amazon Web Services in Seattle.
Arepalli completed his BTech in Computer Science at IIIT Dharwad in 2022. He then joined Riverbed Technology in Bengaluru as a software engineer in July 2022 and worked there until June 2023. According to a social media post documenting his career, his initial annual package was ₹13 lakh.
AI master’s takes him to the US
After gaining professional experience in Bengaluru, Arepalli left his job to pursue graduate studies in artificial intelligence in the United States.
He enrolled in the University at Buffalo’s master’s program in Artificial Intelligence in August 2023 and completed the program in February 2025. His profile lists a grade of 3.6 for the course.
During graduate school, his career development included coding, certifications and product-focused work, adding specialized AI education to his earlier software engineering experience.
Aditya Arepalli joins AWS in Seattle
Following his master’s degree, Arepalli joined Amazon Web Services as a software engineer in March 2025. His profile describes the position as a full-time, on-site role based in Seattle.
A social media post about his career claims the AWS opportunity carries compensation worth approximately ₹1.5 crore. The figure has not been independently verified from the information available for this report and should therefore be treated as a reported estimate rather than confirmed compensation.
Family story shared on social media
The same social media post describes Arepalli as the son of a photographer who worked to support his children's education. It also attributes remarks to his father expressing pride that his son was now in a position to take responsibility for the family.
Arepalli's progression from IIIT Dharwad to Riverbed Technology, graduate study at the University at Buffalo and a software engineering position at AWS illustrates a career path combining Indian engineering education, professional experience and specialized graduate study in the United States.
