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Saurav Malani

@sauravmalani

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Senior Software Engineer| Experienced in Building Scalable & Resilient Systems | Gsoc CNCF| IIIT Hyd

India

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I graduated from IIIT-Hyderabad 5 years ago and am currently a Product & Engineering Lead at Valmi.io, where I’m shaping an Embedded Data Platform for Spreadsheets to simplify Segment.com use cases for emerging companies. Before this, as a Senior Software Engineer at RudderStack, I helped scale their core engine to process tens of millions of user events per second.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Product & Engineering Lead

Current

Valmi.io

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Led team of 9 engineers, driving design & development of backend systems, control planes, engines, & integrations, while creating actionable tasks and ensuring smooth, efficient execution.

Collaborated with potential customers to uncover pain points & identify product opportunities, transforming business goals into a clear product roadmap that aligned engineering efforts with company objectives

Communication Skills Python Leadership System Design Project Management Product Roadmap

Senior Software Engineer

RudderStack

Jun 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 8 months)

Achieved a 66% reduction in Rudder server memory usage (from 8GB to under 3GB) by chunking large event sets into smaller units, enabling efficient async processing and resolving pipeline bottlenecks.

Designed and implemented a GDPR compliance service to handle downstream data deletion for over 50M users, maintaining system performance & reliability during boot while safeguarding privacy.

Problem Solving Backend Development Architecture Design Cloud System Design Resilience Golang Leadership CI CD CI CD Pipelines Team Collaboration

SDE 1

Semut.io

Mar 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Designed and built an ORM-like abstraction layer for MySQL and PostgreSQL, streamlining database interactions for apps on the underlying cloud platform, enhancing developer productivity.
Developed a one-click application setup, streamlining deployment processes and enhancing overall efficiency for development teams.

Python Python Programming Communication Skills

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

IIIT - Hyderabad

B.Tech and MS, Computer Science

2015 - 2020

Grade: 9.25/10

Activities and societies: • Research List Award for publishing an IEEE Journal during my undergraduate with over 100 citations. • Google SoC | CNCF : Redesigned Cortex (a scalable version of Prometheus) architecture to enhance reliability and scalability by optimizing the data ingestion mechanism for seamless scaling operations.

• Dean’s List Award for Academic
Excellence
• 232th rank out of 4,401 teams in the
ACM-ICPC’19 Asia Region Online Coding Round.