# Ankur Saxena

> Software Engineer

Location: Greater Philadelphia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankursaxena

Extensive range of experience in software engineering, front-end development, server administration, and consulting within startup environments.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Invitae
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ JOOR
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
- Overhaul and centralize legacy authentication systems using Keycloak
- Improve system visibility and performance using tools such as Datadog and ELK
- Establish load testing patterns and standardized load testing system
- Tech: Kubernetes, polyglot services, AWS, primarily Python backends and React frontends

### Senior Application Developer @ The Wharton School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia
Unites experts in the social sciences, medicine, computer science, and neuroscience to solve the problem of enduring behavior change

    - Architect and develop tools and infrastructure for executing a pipeline for multiple concurrent research studies
    - Coordinate with researchers to gather requirements, plan, design, and implement their vision
    - Support individual researchers by developing and/or modifying their research tools
    - Organize and implement organization-wide security protocol
    - Develop an ETL pipeline to process millions of data-points daily

### Software Engineer @ Lacoda
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Flexible web-based tool for loan management

Extended on Double-entry bookkeeping engine
Third Party Integrations: Pactsafe, Dwolla, Google Analytics, Mandrill
Implemented business logic for online financial transactions
Matchmaking service for borrowers and lenders
Lacoda Stack: Flask, Postgres, Backbone
Deal City Stack: Pyramid, Postgres, Angular

### Lead Software Engineer @ American Certified
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Philadelphia
- Front-end Web Design: Developed start-up ecommerce website using various frameworks from its inception in 2013 to present.

- Database Architecture: Designed MySQL schema based on business and technical requirements. Contains over three million products, with real time natural languages search capabilities. 

- Data Collection: Developed a tool to automatically collect data from amazon.com for the business. Was able to collect all products from 30,000 category nodes using 5 search terms in one week.

- Advised CEO in making business and technology related decisions.

- Mentored and trained new employees and interns.

### Research Assistant @ Drexel University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
-Implemented an experimental web editor for novice programmers for research.

-Developed a data collection infrastructure and “real time data replay” to facilitate analysis of user activity.

-Conducted literature reviews, observed users, analyzed research data, and collaborated on research paper and posters for publication.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/atsp001

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Last updated: 2026-03-23