Saurabh Kaul

Email: saurabhkaul@icloud.com ❖ Location: New Delhi, India
Links: GitHub ❖ LinkedIn ❖ Website

Work Experience

Backend Engineer (Rust) | Aug. 2021 – June 2023 | Remote (EST)

Showseeker creates cloud based advertisement software that manages ad proposal and order lifecycle.

Built an in-memory Search API over cable industry datasets, leveraging bincode and data structures to achieve an average response time of 200ms, enabling efficient search and filtering.
- Extended the same service for historical search over 4TB+ data on SnowflakeDB. Optimised Snowflake to shave off 500ms~1s off response time by indexing, fixing table issues and improving query.
Developed cross service API’s on our core backend that were extensively used across other downstream services.
- Collaborated with fellow teammates to plan out schema, migrations and architecture.
Implemented file parsers for XML and CSV files, improving data quality and reliability for subsequent processing. Added alerts, retries and graceful error handling for when things went wrong.

Stack: Rust; MySQL/MariaDB; Linux; SnowflakeDB; Docker; Kibana/Grafana

Freelance Software Engineer | Sept. 2020 – July 2021 | Remote (EST)

Quantumlabs.us is a crypto startup that leverages algo bots for trading.

Maintained their Flask monolith, setup & maintained infra like Hashicorp Vault, Droplets, Postgres db etc.
Deployed websites, setup pipelines and alerts. Reduced monthly billing of our AWS and Digital Ocean accounts by resizing instances and cleaning up unused infra.
Contributed to architecture design, helping the trading teams integrate their services with the rest of the stack.

Stack: Python (Flask); Postgres; Digital Ocean; Vault; Nginx; AWS

Full Stack Engineer | Nov. 2018 – Sept. 2020 | Mumbai, India

Paytm Insider is India’s leading Live Events, Sports, and Movies ticketing platform.

Tackled authentication, app state and paytm checkout for websites running inside native Paytm app with custom Native JS bridges sharing data between them. Onboarded teammates and mentored a junior engineer.
Led engineering efforts for Insider.in and Paytm Movies, our events and movies ticketing platforms.
- Oversaw traffic issues on our website, seating chart and checkout during IPL, India’s largest sporting event. Tracked and deployed fixes before major events going live.
- Shipped major UI features like sidebar, banners, login flow, checkout revamp etc. across both mobile and desktop.
- Shipped integration of a new bundle of our React website which ran inside the Paytm App. This let us use the same logic across our consumer website and the Paytm app.
Resolved complex technical issues for customers on-site during events, enhancing customer satisfaction and ensuring smooth entry processes.
Shipped end to end features across frontend and backend as well as worked on our queue consumers.

Stack: React.js; Node.js; MongoDB; AWS SQS; Observability; Typescript

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology | 2014-2018 | New Delhi, India