Nishant Saxena

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

16+ years of engineering management experience.
Expertise in AWS cloud services and microservices architecture.
Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in cloud-based solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesProject ManagementLeadershipJavaDatabase Design.net FrameworkPythonC#C++Web Security

Other Skills

Adobe Shared CloudAmazon DynamodbAmazon SQSApplication FrameworksArchitectural DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Intelligence for BusinessAzureAzure Cosmos DBAzure dbBootstrapCCareer ManagementCoaching & MentoringCritical Thinking

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Results-driven Engineering Manager with 16+ years of expertise in C/C++/C#/.NET, Java, Python, and Object-Oriented Design. Proven ability to translate complex problem statements into scalable, well-documented solutions. Expertise in AWS cloud services, including S3, SQS, DynamoDB, EC2, ECS, Elastic Cloud, and Redis cache, optimizing cloud infrastructure for high-performance applications. Strong background in multithreaded programming, microservices architecture, and distributed computing platforms, ensuring efficient and scalable system design. Passionate about building and leading high-performing global engineering teams, fostering innovation, and driving technical excellence. Skilled in mentoring engineers, streamlining development processes, and delivering mission-critical solutions.

Experience

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2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Engineering Manager

Jan 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Product: Salesforce Data Protection, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Data Protection, Google Suite Data Protection
I led the Dev and QA teams to ensure the on-time delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 data protection, which included 18 microservices and coordination across seven teams. This was a greenfield development project where I was involved from Care 0 (requirements gathering) through to LA and GA, including the creation of High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD) for both the application and data planes, as well as development efforts.
At the same time, I managed the deliverables for Salesforce data protection, ensuring on-time completion. This involved conducting LLD and code reviews for various features.
Additionally, I designed and developed libraries for backup, discovery, and restore by refactoring existing code in Salesforce Data Protection. This refactoring allowed for the development of new workloads with minimal effort, requiring only workload-specific code.

Project ManagementPeople ManagementDatabase DesignLeadershipArchitectural DesignMicroservices+15