Sayantan Saha

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Seattle, Washington, United States15 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 14 years of experience in software engineering leadership.
  • Proven track record in delivering complex technical solutions.
  • Expertise in distributed systems and database management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Database Management expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipAmazon Web Services (aws)Database SystemsSecuritySystem ArchitectureDatabase Management System (dbms)System Design

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsCC++Computer Networking ConceptsComputer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresDatabase System ConceptsDatabasesDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsEclipseHTMLHibernate

About

As a seasoned software engineering leader with over 14 years of experience, Sayantan has a proven track record in leading and delivering technical solutions to complex real-world problems in distributed systems and databases, across various organizations, positively impacting many industries. His expertise spans software development, system architecture, database systems with advanced query capabilities and secure authorization architecture, people and project leadership, with a strong emphasis on creating scalable and efficient solutions for customers. Over the last five years, Sayantan has transitioned into technical lead and managerial roles leading multiple projects and teams, driving the delivery of system-critical product offerings and features through his teams that have significantly impacted thousands of businesses and ultimately millions of customers. His leadership has ensured successful execution of high-stakes projects, balancing technical excellence with strategic business alignment, generating immense business value. Throughout his career, Sayantan has demonstrated a commitment to continuous learning and innovation, staying abreast of emerging technologies to drive business success. His collaborative approach and effective communication skills have enabled him to work seamlessly with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams, ensuring the alignment of technical solutions with organizational goals.

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Leader - AWS DocumentDB

Apr 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

  • Building one of the best-in-class document databases for cloud at AWS DocumentDB.
  • Leading some key foundational aspects for AWS DocDB - Protocol, Connectivity, QoS, Security, Resource Governance, Advanced query capabilities around Vector, Analytics etc.
  • If you're relying on 99.99% SLA for DocumentDB, that's ensured by me and my team
  • If you need to authenticate and authorize a user on DocumentDB, that's on me and my team
  • If you feel secure about your data and compliance in DocumentDB, that's on me and my team
  • if you're using DocumentDB for any GenAI or Vector or Analytics use case, that's brought to you by me and my team
  • Launched numerous high impact database product/features for AWS DocumentDB (links tagged below): GenAI-enabler AWS DocumentDB Vector Search; security-critical AWS DocumentDB IAM Authentication, client side encryption; authorization-critical Role based access control for default and user-defined roles; enterprise-critical DML query auditing at scale and many more.
  • Some of the portfolio projects links:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/06/amazon-documentdb-iam-database-authentication/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/vector-search-amazon-documentdb/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/08/amazon-documentdb-mongodb-compatibility-dml-query-auditing-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/03/amazon-documentdb-mongodb-5-0-wire-protocol-client-side-encryption/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-role-based-access-control-for-amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility-user-defined-roles-for-access-control/
Systems DesignLeadershipSystem ArchitectureProject ManagementPeople ManagementSystem Design+4

Amazon

2 roles

Engineering Leader - Amazon Internal Infra

Promoted

Dec 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · India · On-site

  • Led cellularization Amazon's Info-Sec. approved de-facto secure data custodian system used for managing all critical digital assets, handling billions of documents at petabytes scale for 150+ services and thousands of internal and external users at thousands of TPS/QPS.
System ArchitectureSystem DesignDatabase Management System (DBMS)Distributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Engineer

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · India · On-site

  • 1. End-to-end high-level and low level design to achieve solutions to abstract problems.
  • 2. Owning components from design, development to production and operational support.
  • 3. Followed Service Oriented Architecture
  • Technologies/Languages - Java, SQL, Perl, Shell scripting, AWS Simple workflow.
  • Application framework used - Spring (Java), Mason(Perl)
  • 4. Worked to improve operational excellence for our team both from support and product-development perspective. Root-caused tickets and correspondingly went ahead and made necessary changes in code to improve our product to address patterned concerns and thus helped reduce the general ticket queue size considerably.
System ArchitectureSystem DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft

Software Engineer - Azure Service Fabric

Jul 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · India · On-site

  • Working on enabling - Java programmability on Linux – for Service Fabric (Azure) - Microsoft's flagship Platform As a Service product - Azure’s of-the-shelf scalable, reliable platform for deploying the applications. Announced in //build2017 and is about to be in GA.
  • Working as a core member of the development team from day 0 of the v0 project
  • Built the build, integration, automated validation framework for java from scratch and integrated it with Linux and existing Microsoft tools and technology for v0 of the project
  • Implemented - the management APIs for querying the service fabric cluster, for managing a stateful/stateless service, components needed to talk to native Service Fabric run-time for callbacks and for life-cycle management etc - in Java and corresponding JNI code in C++
  • Sole owner of end to end developer experience for Service Fabric in Java - built the eclipse plugin which would enable user to - create varieties of Service Fabric Applications, initiate the local Service Fabric cluster, build the application and then deploy/upgrade/uninstall the application on local or azure cluster
  • Sole owner of the CICD experience for Service Fabric Java Applications - developed Jenkins plugin for Service Fabric Java Applications - to work on Linux, Mac and Windows, which would pick any change you push to your Service Fabric application on GitHub, trigger a build inside the Jenkins docker container instance and consequently deploy/upgrade the application.
  • Technologies/Languages -
  • Java, C++, ant, Gradle, cmake, JNI, Shell Scripting, debian, Node, jenkins, git/github, plugin-development (Linux, Mac, Windows)
System ArchitectureSystem Design

Ibm software labs

Extreme Blue Software Engineering Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked in "Semi-structured Data Analytics driven Application Maintenance & Support in
  • Cloud Operating Environments" project
  • Implemented multi-tenancy support(group-admin and super-admin level hierarchies) in IBM Log Analytics Product- Unity, Created a couple of new services to facilitate the change and modified some existing services to incorporate the functional and logical changes
  • Deployed Unity as an application in IBM Cloud Operating Environment, then later integrated it as a service in IBM’s Cloud Operating Environment, which was demonstrably used in context of an application
  • Developed Expert Advice module (based on Log-data) and Usage Statistics as Custom applications

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • The tasks and responsibilities I performed in this role consists of - clearing concepts of students, discussing topics in depth when needed, composing and evaluating assignments (programming and otherwise), helping out students in Lab-sessions, taking demonstrations, grading of exam papers, etc.
  • The courses, I was involved with, during my tenure at IIT Delhi, as a Teaching Assistant, are (in reverse chronological order) -
  • CSL201 (Data Structure and Algorithms)
  • CSL719 (Synthesis of Digital Systems)
  • CSL100 (Introduction to Computer Science - for Non-CS freshmen)
  • CSN110 (Introduction to Computer Science - for CS freshmen)

Acclaris

Software Engineer

Jun 2011Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kolkata, India

  • o Designed & Implemented template-based file upload-download, transaction statement download feature in customer portal; implemented some new features for claim-validation in administrator portal; implemented, automated and maintained back-end Oracle procedures related to financial transactions between multiple entities
  • o Development done in – JAVA, J2EE, RDBMS, Oracle PL/SQL, JBOSS, Jasper, Shell Scripts

Dept. of computer sc. & engg, jadavpur university

Research Associate

Aug 2010Apr 2011 · 8 mos

  • Abstract Syntax Tree Based Clone Detection in programs

Variable energy cyclotron centre, department of atomic energy, govt. of india

Summer Intern

Jun 2010Jun 2010 · 0 mo

  • Unix Tool to extract details regarding Computer Memory and Processes and CPU Utilization in Cluster Architecture

Cryptology research group, indian statistical institute

2 roles

Summer Intern

May 2010Jun 2010 · 1 mo

  • Checking biases and finding weak keys in symmetric key Cryptography

Summer Trainee

May 2009May 2009 · 0 mo

  • Form submission and Data Retrieval system

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master's degree — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2014Present

Jadavpur University

B.E. — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011Present

Ramakrishna Mission V.C. College, Rahara

10+2 (Higher Secondary - WBCHSE)

Jan 2007Present

Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home, Rahara

10 (Madhyamik - WBBSE)

Jan 2005Present

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