Sahil Gera

CTO

Delhi, India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in architecting scalable backend systems.
Proven track record in cloud service development.
Strong focus on accessibility and compliance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Architect specializing in SaaS solutions with a focus on print and scan workflows.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend ServicesCloud Services3d PrintingAccessibilityColor ManagementWeb Application DevelopmentPrint AnalyticsWeb Application DeliveryEmbedded SystemsSimulation Modeling

Other Skills

Web AppsMobile AppsSDK DevelopmentScalable ArchitectureSecure ArchitectureResilient ArchitectureAccessibility ComplianceCloud-Based DashboardAutomation FrameworkGraphical AlgorithmsCircle Packing AlgorithmsCore JavaJavaC++C

About

Passionate about architecting and building Backend Systems. Experience in design and development of products and services in Web / Mobile / Desktop domains (including 1.0 versions).

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

5 roles

Lead Architect, Adobe Developer Platforms

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Senior Computer Scientist | Architect, Adobe I/O Events

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Computer Scientist 2

Jan 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Adobe Cloud for Print and Scan (ACPS)
Conceptualized and architected ACPS that caters to applications in print and scan workflows.
This offering includes cloud services that can be utilized in Print and Scan workflows - SmartPrint for Web, SmartPrint for Office, Restricted printing, DRM in Print and Scan etc.
Solved interesting server-side problems by designing a scalable, secure and resilient architecture. Also designed and developed an execution-engine for long-running document processing.
Developed backend services, web and mobile apps and SDK for desktop apps.

Backend ServicesWeb AppsMobile AppsSDK DevelopmentCloud ServicesScalable Architecture+2

Computer Scientist (1/2)

Jan 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Desktop Product: Tray Editor: 3D Print Application with capability to transform, color manage, preview and print 3D models.
Developed 3D print application on top of Adobe Acrobat that utilizes Acrobat's 3D rendering engine.
3D model transformations, color management with custom color profiles, auto-placement logic to place models on the print tray, broker process to off-load computations.
Desktop Product: Adobe Leanprint: Accessibility
Achieved Section 508 compliance in Adobe Leanprint. This included Keyboard accessibility, Screen Reader support, Mnemonics support, High Contrast support with in all applications supported by Adobe Leanprint.

3D PrintingColor ManagementAccessibility ComplianceAccessibility

Senior Member Of Technical Staff (1/2)

Sep 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Desktop Product: Adobe LeanPrint: Set of plug-ins for common applications viz. Office/Browsers/Acrobat - a new innovative product which aims to reduce ink and paper cost while printing.
Worked on Audit service to track print-related user activity on windows. This involves DLL injection and installing hooks/detours on print workflows.
Worked on Outlook plugin for header detection and mail content parsing.
Web Application: Adobe LeanPrint Enterprise Dashboard Print Analytics
With LeanPrint client software, also developed a cloud based dashboard to enable IT-Admin to configure the product, provide printing related costs, view its print behavior and determine savings achieved.
Developed a web application based on Spring MVC framework with end to end implementation of authentication, reporting, queries etc. Used MySQL/Apache Derby integrated with IBatis ORM Framework.

Print AnalyticsWeb Application DevelopmentCloud-Based Dashboard

Citrix systems

Software Engineer

Jun 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

Worked on Citrix NetScaler, an integrated Web application delivery controller appliance.
Features: “Global Server Load Balancing” and “Real Time Streaming Protocol” of Citrix NetScaler
Implemented a part of Automation Framework to validate configurations, which was eventually used across all feature teams.

Web Application DeliveryAutomation Framework

University of applied sciences (htwk), leipzig, germany

Research Intern

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Greater Leipzig Area

Creation of Industrial Embedded Systems with modern GUIs
Focused on acceleration of drawing algorithms with specialized hardware blocks and successfully implemented graphical elements in VHDL for the Altera NIOS II 32 bit RISC Processor with significant performance gain over the traditional software execution of drawing heuristics.
Extended the implementation to graphical transformations of 2D objects.

Embedded SystemsGraphical Algorithms

Nanyang technological university, singapore

Research Intern

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Singapore

Marine Traffic Simulator for Capacity Analysis of Waterways and Anchorage Space Assessment of Singapore Waters
Comparative study of Circle Packing Algorithms for Anchorage Space Allocation. (JAVA based Simulation model built for Capacity Analysis and Space Management)

Simulation ModelingCircle Packing Algorithms