Sanjay Saini

Software Engineer

Rajasthan, India10 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Increased ad impressions by 62% through optimization.
Developed a scalable content management system.
Enhanced user experience with advanced recommendation engines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack developer in the Media and Education sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

PhpData AnalysisProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

JavaAdobe PhotoshopMySQLDrupal 8SOLRRedisFluentdAWSNginxDockerNagiosVarnishMongoDBElasticsearchData Scraping

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the newspapers industry. Skilled in PHP, Java, Adobe Photoshop, Product Development, and Data Analysis. Strong engineering professional with a Master’s Degree focused in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Experience

Lokmat media pvt. ltd

Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · worl, ,umbai

● Stabilized old system, used cache like varnish, optimized MySQL queries, indexed data, modified schema
● Stimulated for newer system that will have current digital content standards like SEO, AMP pages etc.
● Drafted architecture for newer digital platform using popular open source frameworks, databases, various caches
● Used Drupal 8 for developing content management system having various user roles, content types, taxonomies
● SOLR as search indexing platform for CMS database, used for search APIs, feeds generation and to serve content
● Redis as caching database for front end servers, store different ads, markup blocks, user session information
● Fluentd as database log manager and feed API server, bridge between frontend and backend database
● Content delivery server, with varnish(2) at front as cache servers in round robin, and Phalcon(2) at backend
● Designed image server that delivers optimized images from search engine optimization perspective
● Used TWIG as templating engine, where we defined and designed basic blocks of website, that can be reused
● AWS for hosting and cloud computing, nginx as http server, cloudfront as static content delivery
● Used docker for devops implementation and nagios for server management, logrotate to rotate logs
● Current content management system is being used by a total of 327 people , having 13 different roles
● Enhanced widget driven website provided a better user experience and better reach in search engines
● Increased ad impression by 62 %, social media reach by 36 %, reduced website page speed by 100 ms

PHPJavaAdobe PhotoshopData AnalysisProduct DevelopmentMySQL+8

Meetuniversity.com

Software Engineer

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Search engine for Counselors
● Developed web based application for counselors with dynamic search parameters, attributes and operators
● Scraped, cleansed, structured relevant data, stored in mongoDB and used elasticsearch to index
● Increased number of students counseled by 200%, search platform helped in providing more precise suggestions

MongoDBElasticsearchData ScrapingData AnalysisSoftware Development

India web portal pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharastra

1. Article Recommendation Engine
Modified and optimized open source recommendation engine SELDON; Used Lucerne indexing, semantic vectorization on tags extracted using NLP
Used fluentd to track and store user’s behavior so that user’s personal recommendation and prediction can be implemented using collected data
Optimized server, now can handle 1 lakh concurrent requests, currently server is serving 9 website’s users majorly dnaindia.com and india.com
working on translation and parallel NLP integration on articles using Microsoft and Google’s translation API, Google’s parsey mcparseface
2. knowledge base and consumer social signature
Designed and implemented storm topologies to process raw article to extract relevant information like tags, summary, DBpedia validated entities
Used Kafka, apache storm, zookeeper, jetty, Stanford NLP, DBpedia api’s, neo4j, mongo DB, elastic search, maven with a total of 8 distributed servers
Generated APIs used for various projects like tags extraction, summarization, topic pages, search API, entity validation, photo gallery project etc.
3. Data Scraping and Schema implementation
Scraped data for various kind of microsites using JavaScript cheerio and request library and regular expression; Cleansed and stored data for future
Implemented micro data schema to increase Click Through Rate; also helped in search engine optimization and Google tag manager API results

NLPKafkaApache StormMongoDBElasticsearchData Analysis+1

Noisyox

Developer

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Noida

Event Recommendation Engine
Devised an event ranking algorithm incorporating behavioral dynamics of popularity parameters. Trends in social media and user’s collected data
Conceptualized & implemented event recommendation personalization using user data from Facebook API, IBM footprint and behavioral trend
Optimized query response by server profiling, bottleneck detection, restructuring database schema by redundancy elimination & splitting servers
Streamlined scraped data using python Scrapy and beautiful soup library for events collection, cleansing, storing and scheduling of events

PythonScrapyBeautiful SoupSoftware Development