# Kumar Saurabh

> Senior SDE @ Walmart | MS CS @ Indiana University Bloomington

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kumarsaurabh

I'm a passionate Software Development engineer with extensive experience in building Full-Stack mobile and web applications. I have strong expertise with scripting languages like bash and python, JavaScript and Nodejs for backend development. I've also worked in production situations to diagnose potential issues and enhance applications' performance by horizontally and vertically scaling the system.

Skills: 
Languages: JavaScript, Java, Python
Cloud technologies: Docker, AWS, Kubernetes
Tools and technologies: Concourse(CI/CD tool), Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Kafka, NodeJS
Scripting: Shell/Bash
Frontend: HTML, CSS, Javascript
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase
Miscellaneous: REST APIs, Microservices

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ TerraClear Inc
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Teaching Assistant @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Teaching assistant for Introduction to Software Systems (Java).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Ancestry
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Lehi, Utah, United States
- Migrated admin portal from Perl codebase to new architecture using Typescript and NextJS improving the administrative effectiveness by 17%. 
- Developed REST APIs to cater to the request from the portal including support of filtering and pagination using GraphQL, NodeJS, and MySQL with 14ms average response time.
- Implemented and optimized complex SQL queries to fetch user data from MySQL and improve API response time by 23%.
- Build and maintain security log aggregation and detection systems using distributed monitoring tool – ELK stack.
- Participated in E22 hackathon to design and develop DNA Social Network and won the “Best Design” award.

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
AI for CSCI C-212 Introduction to Software Systems.

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Associate Instructor for CSCI-D461 Database Concepts an undergrad course.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Jio
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai Area, India
Engineered the entire backend of the JioTV application using Node JS, Nginx, Redis, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch. Scaled Back-end to handle more than 200 million downloads on playstore and AppStore combined and 7.2 million concurrent users.

Built the architecture and pipeline for live scorecard and sports videos integration from Newtork18 for transcoding video files using FFmpeg as well as delivery through HLS and Mpeg-dash which enhanced daily content consumption by 21% on JioTV.

Increased revenue and average watch time by 38% after remodeling the JioTV backend services to integrate services of JioCinema and JioNews applications.

Programmed Search API optimizations resulted in an 87% improvement in response time with half the original ES cluster size.

Integrated Application Performance Monitoring (Elastic APM) in APIs to easily identify production issues which eliminated downtime by 95%.

Implemented content security for video feeds using Akamai Hmac token and Nginx, which prevented video leakage on fake applications and avoided monetary loss for the company.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Jio
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ksaurabh737

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Last updated: 2026-03-22