# Gargi Saraf

> Senior Software Engineer-Messaging @ Sendbird | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gargisaraf

Experienced Software Engineer with hands on experience on distributed systems, cloud services and computer networks. Strong engineering professional with a Master's degree focused in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. 

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 —

►𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 
Python, HTML, C++, Java, Golang, Kotlin, HTML, Scala, JSON, YAML, XML

►𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 & 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀:  
REST API, gRPC, CRUD, AWS, GCP, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Celery, Django, ElasticSearch, Datadog, PagerDuty, Apache ZooKeeper, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, Springboot, Grafana, openAPI, Hive, Django, Hadoop, Spark

►𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘀:
Layers L3 — L7, TCP/IP, UDP, XMPP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, ARP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, SIP, VLAN, WLAN, VPN

►𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: 
Redis, MySQL NoSQL, MongoDb, PostgreSQL, Memcached 

►𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀:       
Linux (Ubuntu, Kali, Centos), Windows, Mac OS, Unix

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer-Messaging @ Sendbird
Jan 2021 – Present
— Developing a global large scale distributed and scalable real-time messaging service.
—  Designing simple, intuitive APIs to solve complex architectural problems.
— Deploying and operating server clusters within a cloud environment.
— Contributing to server reliability efforts; related to deployment efficiency, operation cost, alerting / monitoring and incident post-mortem / follow-ups.
— Writing customer-centric documentation on API and messaging services.
— Architecting and building efficient servers on Sendbird’s globally distributed high performance infrastructure.
— Handling massive concurrent connections and processing large-scale traffic using multi threaded, high
performance distributed systems and micro services.

Recent projects
◘ Multi Profanity Detector: Designed and developed a detection system to support multiple profanity list.
◘ Distributed Moderation engine: Design, development and deployment of a distributed rule engine.
◘ Failed Webhook Logs Retrieval: Developed an upstream API to provide failed-webhooks in near real-time using Kafka.
◘ Moderation Logs Collector: Designed near-live visibility of all the detected and applied moderation rules using Kafka and Elasticsearch.
◘ Data export scheduler: Designed and implemented a scalable data export system from MySQL leveraging Hive over Hadoop for extraction, processing, and export, utilizing technologies including Hive, Hadoop, and MySQL.


►𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 & 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀: 
REST API, gRPC, CRUD, AWS, GCP, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Celery, Django, ElasticSearch, Datadog, PagerDuty, Apache ZooKeeper, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, Springboot, Grafana, openAPI, Hive, Django, Hadoop, Spark

►𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: 
Redis, MySQL NoSQL, MongoDb, PostgreSQL, Memcached

### Software Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California
API service development using swagger framework and testing in terms of quality in NFV (Network Function Virtualization) configuration management team.

Implemented OAuth2 authentication in NFV. 

Programmed HTTP server to read and write the incoming API data in redis database. 

Developed internal REST client for the user to interact with the NFV environment using Python’s requests library.

Development of user-space G-vTAP agent to mirror the selected traffic from a source interface to destination interface.

Creating and executing unit test plans for testing the complete integration of apps in NFV.

Developed a feature to dynamically rename existing traffic objects without re-configuring hardware and affecting traffic.

Remodeled an existing management daemon feature along with CLI (command-line interpreter) to improve reliability and performance of the software.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gigamon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | United States
Worked with Embedded team to build python libraries using REST API call for converting cli procedures to API procedures.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gigamon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | United States
Learned Gigamon platform and features offered by Gigamon 
Designed Dashboard for QA team using web2py application which configured frontend design with database and backend python codes.
Developed a Test Plan, Implemented and tested it having developed Python Automated script.

### Project Intern @ Garware Suncontrol Window Glass Films - India
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India


## Education
### Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

### Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
S.B.O.A Public School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11