Saurabh Badhwar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled Red Hat Satellite to manage over 100K hosts.
Developed A/B test observability platform for massive data analysis.
Achieved $500K savings by optimizing Big Data pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Performance Engineer with extensive experience in scaling and optimizing complex systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringProject Management

Other Skills

AnsibleApache KafkaApache SparkArtificial IntelligenceBig DataCC (Programming Language)C++CSSCore JavaCustomer ExperienceData MiningDockerEnterprise ArchitectureGit

About

Here to find new opportunities and to help make human experiences better in the world of AI Currently focusing on solving real world challenges in candidate recruitment! Currently a Staff Engineer with more than 7 years of experience across Performance engineering, building infrastructure tools and frameworks. During my career have worked upon building tools and experiences for engineering teams which facilitate ease of debugging when it comes to understanding regressions. Have worked upon bootstrapping multiple projects from scratch and scaling them from a few hundred requests per month to 100 thousands requests per month. Some of my achievements include: - Scaling Red Hat Satellite from being able to manage 30K hosts to >100K hosts across data centers in a single deployment - Building and scaling the Centralized profiling infrastructure at LinkedIn currently serving >100K requests per month - Bootstrapping and leading efforts which drove us to build a first of its kind A/B test observability platform to provide analysis for >400 Trillion calls every single day going through A/B tests - Achieving savings worth more than USD $500K on recurring basis by simplifying Big Data analysis pipelines.

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Technical Lead for Observability - Profiling, Logging and Events
Designed the safety-net observability layer for the experimentation platform, automatically detecting anomalies at low ramp rates (<1%). Prevented >130 incidents annually which happen due to A/B ramps, safeguarding user experience for millions of users. Further conducted multiple road shows to promote this platform, leading to a cultural shift where multiple teams adopted the A/B test observability platform as a go to platform before ramping the experiments to more members.
Transformed the centralized profiling infrastructure to be highly self serviceable and reliable for usage across production, without the engineering teams requiring any onboarding steps. This lead to service profiling being used from <30 sessions a month to >300,000 sessions every month with usages across multiple high severity incidents to get to the root cause
With the company wide focus on reducing infrastructure costs and overhead, Identified inefficiencies and significant high costs associated to running a service exception discovery and reporting infrastructure and spearheaded an effort to merge the service exception discovery and reporting with logging infrastructure to reduce effort duplication and to improve the economics of the product. Projected to reduce the infrastructure costs of >$500K USD per year. This further improved the service reliability by making backend services more resilient in case of failures, by avoiding excessive exception logging which can lead to I/O storms.
Rearchitecting the logging infrastructure to improve reliability, costs and user experience to make the platform more stable, self serviceable and cost efficient and provide a standardized stack that works across LinkedIn.

JavaApache KafkaPythonProject ManagementApache SparkPerformance Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Technical lead for sitewide profiling infrastructure allowing engineers to understand the performance of their services in production at code level granularity
Static Analyzer for Code performance
Worked on developing a static analysis tooling for performance analysis of code during code review stage
Leading the effort for developing performance analysis pipeline to understand the performance impacts and detect regressions at Service API level due to ongoing A/B experiments

Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading Sitewide Profiling Initiative at LinkedIn which enables low overhead application profiling in production without Downtimes.
Re-architected On-Demand Profiling Infrastructure to reduce technical debt and improve scalability
Ran cross-team effort to integrate Profiling capabilities for applications while load testing applications in Production
Actively working on building Static Performance Analysis Engine for Java applications

Red hat

3 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos

Technical lead for Performance and Scale Efforts of Red Hat Satellite 6
Mentored and helped on-board new graduates to Performance Engineering effort @ Red Hat Bangalore
Worked to develop tools to enable Build to Build Data Comparison
Technical lead for product capacity planning for wide variety of Red Hat Products
Worked on Performance and Scale Efforts for Red Hat Insights
Major Achievements included:
Scaled Red Hat Satellite from 25K Systems to 60K Systems
Helped initiate an effort for architecture migration supporting remote dedicated database support for Red Hat Satellite 6 (Landed in version 6.4 of Red Hat Satellite Release)
Developed methodologies for running large scale performance tests inside a resource constrained environment
Successfully completed a cross team effort to make Large scale deployment of Satellite 6 a Default
Helped in training the Customer Support teams to debug Performance related cases for Satellite 6

Associate Software Engineer, Performance and Scale Engineering

Aug 2017 – Jun 2018 · 10 mos

Leading Performance and Scale Engineering of Red Hat Satellite 6. The primary responsibilities included:
Understanding and Optimizing the interaction between different components of Satellite 6
Developing tools to install Red Hat Satellite in large scale performance testing environments
Improvise upon the performance of Red Hat Satellite 6
Figure out and fix the challenges of running Satellite 6 at large scale
Develop new methodologies to understand and evaluate the performance and scale of applications
Development of applications to provide monitoring for the products
Architected an automation system for large scale distributed performance testing utilizing Containers
Contributing to Upstream codebase with Bug-fixes and performance improvements
Closely working with Support teams to resolve Performance and Scale Issues for Satellite 6

Performance and Scalability Engineering Intern

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos

As an intern, currently working on Red Hat Satellite 6
The responsibilities include:
Running Performance and Scale Experiments on Red Hat Satellite
Development and Maintenance of tools for Automating the process of deployment, tuning and monitoring
Integration of Statsd and associated plugin development with the Monitoring framework
Major achievements included:
Decoupling the database from the Satellite 6 Host and figuring out tunings to make 10x performance improvement in database response times
Implemented a plugin framework for easily writing statsd plugins that executes in parallel
Contributed to the monitoring and tuning tools for satellite currently being shipped to customers

Fedora project

Quality Assurance Contributor

May 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

I started out with the Fedora Project by contributing to the Quality Assurance and later on by submitting articles to the Community Operations and Fedora Magazine. During my contribution timeline, I have been organizing some talks and sessions at the local level to create awareness about the Fedora Project and bringing up new and enthusiastic contributors to the community.

Ieee niec

2 roles

General Secretary

Apr 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr

Event coordination, Team Leading

Website Team Head

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

As the Website Team Head at IEEE NIEC, the main responsibilities included providing the student branch the best possible way to represent its events and achievements online through their website. The website needs to be creative and eye catching yet low on resource usage. During the tenure, I have worked to build and optimize the frontend and backend of the IEEE NIEC website. The other role included to build and lead the team of members who will be leading the development of the website in the future.

Pristinecut

Backend Developer Intern

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

PristineCut is an online portal dealing in the sale of customized shirts and suites. Being an early stage startup, the position of backend developer intern was a great learning experience. During my time period at PristineCut, I worked on to develop the online ordering and order tracking functionality. The other tasks dealt with the platform optimizations and maintenance to ensure that the platform provides a great customer experience and highest possible uptime.

Mozilla

Contributor

Oct 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

My journey into the world of open source started when I joined the Mozilla Delhi community, There, I have been working on to promote the Mozilla's mission of Open Web. This involved giving talks at various locations or organizing hands on technical activities. With my interest in the programming area, I have started to contribute to the Mozilla Servo project which is a browser rendering engine written in Rust.

Sevasetu

Platform Developer

May 2015 – Nov 2015 · 6 mos

Sevasetu is an NGO working to improve the conditions of Women and Children in Rural India. I joined the NGO as a Backend developer with the primary role to redevelop the backend for the organization such that it can be easily integrated with the other services being run inside the NGO. This involved the setup of a system that can communicate easily with the other services as well as which can provide an easy to use platform for non-technical people to work upon.