# Sahil Dev

> Software Engineer @ Cape | ex-Glean, Applied Intuition | Cornell University

Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sahildev

#68 on NatSec100 / Join us! https://www.cape.co/careers
We've raised $91 million as of March 2025, here's why: https://www.cape.co/blog/building-the-future-of-mobile-privacy

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Software engineer with 5 years of startup experience in software infrastructure and a Master's in Computer Science. Not planning on leaving Cape anytime soon. :)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cape
Jan 2024 – Present | Washington, D.C., United States
#68 on NatSec100 / Join us! https://www.cape.co/careers
We've raised $191 million as of March 2026, here's why: https://www.cape.co/blog/building-the-future-of-mobile-privacy
TIME's Best Inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318477/cape-obscura/

Working on cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and orchestration.

### Software Engineer @ Applied Intuition
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Washington, D.C.
#3 on NatSec100

### Software Engineer, Cloud Platforms @ Glean
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Fast Company #1 Most Innovative Applied AI Company

- Major contributor for multicloud infrastructure migration, enabling support for AWS and Azure
- Automated GCP Stackdriver and Error Reporting with Jira, OpsGenie, and Slack using Pub/Sub and Java servlets
- Scaled monitoring infrastructure to support 1000+ customers in GCP by optimizing Java and Python code
- Maintained internal apps for monitoring, debugging alerts, and viewing deployment data using TypeScript and React
- Wrote the canonical "Intro to On-Call" doc for all backend engineering, with extremely positive feedback

### Distributed Systems Engineer @ Sync Computing
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Acquired by Capital One: https://www.capitalone.com/software/blog/capital-one-software-strengthens-partnership-with-databricks/

- Automated Apache Spark cluster setup

### Software Engineer, Cloud Partnerships @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Automated failure resistance and idempotency in cloud billing service to improve stability and reduce manual toil by an estimated 20 hours per week.
- Implemented new deployment infrastructure and wrote a command-line tool to simplify and accelerate the deployment process for several cloud applications.

(Left to pursue a master’s degree.)

### Machine Learning Research (Twitter Bots) @ UMD Department of Computer Science
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | College Park, Maryland, United States
Developed a context-aware classification model to identify bots from a set of Twitter accounts for an honors research project. Achieved 98.8% accuracy and 98% recall.

### Game Theory Research (Auctions) @ UMD Department of Computer Science
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | College Park, Maryland, United States
First place prize in May 2020 research showcase at the University of Maryland.

Formulated fair auctions as a deep learning problem and presented a deep learning model to optimize revenue and minimize bidder regret.

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | McLean, Virginia, United States
- Improved deployment time for Helm applications from several days to under two hours using Jenkins pipelines to meet pre-approved release guidelines.
- Streamlined future Helm pipeline generation with a Jenkinsfile generator tool.

### Full Stack Developer @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | McLean, Virginia, United States
- Designed and developed a prototype web application for editing phone call transcripts while playing corresponding audio
- Integrated AI generated audio-text synchronization for intelligent highlighting and faster editing
- Used gRPC to communicate between the React frontend and Python backend

### Teaching Assistant @ A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMD
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | College Park, Maryland, United States
- Worked with students to analyze ethics cases, evaluated student comprehension, and moderated student discussion.

### Software Engineer @ Wabtec Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Germantown, Maryland, United States
- Wrote a client-side Windows application to interface with proprietary hardware, increasing Wabtec's profit margins by an estimated $10 million over five years.
- Documented potential points of failure and troubleshooting instructions for the highest-volume product.

### Tutor @ Cusack Prep LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Tutored high-school students in Geometry, Calculus, and Physics.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science (M.Eng.)
Cornell University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (B.S.), Mathematics (B.S.), Business Analytics (minor)
University of Maryland

### High School Diploma
Glenelg High School

### Engineering Technology in General
Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/s-dev
- Website: https://www.sahildev.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05