# Avinash Saxena > Software Engineer at Meta Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/avinashsaxena Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the software development industry. Skilled in Java, Python, system design, ruby on rails based web design, natural language processing, etc. Strong engineering professional, pursuing Master of Science in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Present | Burlingame, CA Software engineer working on building and scaling Knowledge Graph for reality lab devices. Experience working with large scale distributed systems, CI/CD workflows and have experience working with large XFN collaboration based project. Experience working on reality lab devices like Portal, RayBan stories including C++ based device side development for implementing "search and retrieval system" on-device with capabilities to sync data from servers and other devices. Heavily worked on Java, C++, GoLang, Python ### Software Engineer Internship @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Smart Dashboard Sep. 2018 ◦ Enabled improved product management by designing web dashboard from scratch to monitor Knative open-source tool by fetching information from GitHub, Twitter, StackOverflow and TestGrid. Dashboard supports easy visualization of live/historical data through charts, plots and data metrics. ◦ Automated data retrieval using cron triggers. Designed the system to allow for auto recovery and eventual consistency. Utilized PUSH-queues based pipeline to run background processes avoiding HTTP timeouts. ◦ Reduced application latency from ∼2 mins to ∼5 secs using async parallel REST API callbacks in AJAX. ◦ Significantly improved database transaction efficiency by ∼ 32 times using BULK operations. ### Senior Software Engineer Intern, Fraud and Authentication @ Visa Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas 1. Card Update Module June. 2018 Enabled better payment processing, by updating card details of customers whenever a new card is issued. Utilized Hive & Spark to extract relevant card relations to verify transactions. 2. Smart Pump Solution May. 2018 Developed an authentication server using Spring Boot REST standards, Swagger documentation and Spring JPA integration. Added encryption and decryption of confidential data for secured REST communication. Hosted REST APIs to enable JSON communication for credit card registration/deregistration. Automatic 3. Visa Hackathon- Drone Based Document Verification July. 2018 ◦ Bagged runner ups position out of 90 Hackathon ideas in Austin. Worked on Android app and REST server. ### Software Developer @ Oracle India Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India Software Development Engineer 1. Document Cloud Service in Managed File Transfer a. Integrated Document Cloud Service in MFT consuming REST API’s exposed by Document Cloud Service b. Created features to support both upload and download of documents from Document Cloud Service c. Added pagination support to manage large number of responses for customer use cases 2. Integrated Cloud Suite for Oracle a. Ideated a number of APIs required to be exposed for new offering of Integrated Cloud Suite b. Developed and exposed various REST APIs to analyze health of SFTP Servers, logged in users and files uploaded c. Utilized distributed caching to make health data available for all the nodes in a cluster 3. Managed File Transfer (MFT) a. Worked on core architecture and development of various features in MFT product. b. Ideated complete architecture of a new pluggable file system for MFT, that made using any type of file system compatible with MFT c. Developed end to end feature of scheduling events to remove archived transfer information from MFT to reduce space usage d. Integrated MFT Inbound (source side) and outbound (target side) with a cloud offering product of 4. Oracle, Document Cloud Service a. Developed import and export features in MFT, using XSD and XML parsers. 5. Integrated Cloud Service (ICS): Enterprise Resource Planning a. Developed ERP adapter for ICS, in a matter of 1 week, and presented the demo to the team b. Enabled a new file framework for MFT that will provide a significant boost to MFT in cloud domain 6. Domain Creation Automation a. Created scripts using Python and shell to automate the domain creation for MFT b. The script would modify and add required data sources, create folders required, add all required templates based on configuration used and start the required servers ### Research Intern @ The University of Auckland Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 1. Analyzed various algorithms related to strategic voting in Voting Theory for Bordas, Plurality and Veto voting rules 2. Implemented generalized recursive induction model of strategic voting in C++ using vectors 3. Reduced computation time of algorithm by approximately 50% using approach analogous to Branch and Bound 4. Demonstrated ‘Strategic Voting’ resembles ‘Sincere Voting’ with both leading to candidate with maximum overall support win ### Research Intern @ IIIT Bangalore Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 1. Analyzed ‘Degradation algebra’ of temporal degradable systems, revisiting idea of probabilistic choice in selection of parallel paths 2. Extended algebra of fault tolerance to models which followed probabilistic choice in selection of parallel paths ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Texas A&M University ### Master of Science (MSc) in Mathematics and Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avinash-saxena - Portfolio: https://www.avinashsaxena.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/avinashsaxena JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avinashsaxena/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12