# Saman Singh Sandhu

> SWE @ Palantir | Founder @ Khalsa Tech

Location: Manhattan, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saman

I am a versatile, enthusiastic, and diligent engineer that has experience throughout the stack including web, mobile, and backend. I am super passionate about writing clean and maintainable code based off of a beautifully crafted architecture to empower frictionless feature development.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
Production Infrastructure

### Founder @ Khalsa Tech
Jan 2022 – Present | Ontario, Canada
• Founded a nonprofit in pursuit of upgrading tech infrastructure used by places of worship to avoid performing crucial procedures manually
• Published mobile platform to App Store where Gurdwara Admins manage bookings scheduled by the local Sikh Community

### Software Engineer @ Arctic Wolf
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Building a Content Distribution Platform – a multi-cluster, distributed DB with Go, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

### iOS Engineer @ Faire
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Led feature scoping & development of the R2B Referral Program on mobile to increase brand activation by 32%
• Developed client-friendly endpoints in Kotlin to import Address Books by integrating with a Third-Party REST API
• Standardized, prototyped, and documented SwiftUI & UIKit hybrid app architectures with Staff Engineer

### SDK Software Developer @ Mappedin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Designed API for v3 and v4 Android, iOS & React Native mobile SDKs using Kotlin, Swift, and TypeScript respectively
• Prepped API docs and released Android & iOS SDKs to Sonatype Nexus OSS Repository Manager and Cocoapods
• Built demo & test apps using the SDKs and built unit test harness for Android & iOS SDKs

### Senior Full Stack Developer and Co-op Mentor @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Assisted the architectural redesign of a web app used for rhetoric research by improving tech stack for software maintainability
• Revamped UI using ReactJS and developed backend REST API endpoints in Golang to retrieve data from MySQL
• Mentored co-op students by enforcing better software design practices (code review) and scheduling weekly 1:1

### Research Software Engineer @ Syngli Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Authored NLP algorithms in Python to segment text at phonetic and prosodic boundaries using text and speech processing
• Developed web scrapers using Scrapy and statistical data analysis scripts using Jupyter & NumPy for data visualization
• Designed and built UI and backend services in PHP to facilitate CRUD operations on text segmentations stored in MySQL
• Improved user memory of text by 40% according to a human neurocognition research study in affiliation with UW and Laurier

### Web Application Developer @ Dejero
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Automated EnGo software update workflow with Angular 1 & Rails to reduce customer downtime by 9hrs/month
• Saved client IT dept 10hrs/week by enabling remote Gateway config updates with Angular 8 and Golang app
• Fortified enterprise client security by integrating SSO with Azure Active Directory into the Dejero Control Rails app

### Backend Integrations Developer @ Auvik Networks Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Developed a Spring Boot service using Scala to sync data to/from external IT management software via Third-Party REST APIs
• Updated dashboard UI using MarionetteJS and BackboneJS to create an Audit Trail for sync information
• Used an in-house database assertion & trigger system to propagate data changes through hierarchical data models and reduced bug backlog by 70%

### District Referee @ Ontario Soccer
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Worked as an Ontario District Referee with many soccer clubs including Cambridge Youth Soccer, Grand River Soccer, and Guelph Soccer
• Refereed a variety of different leagues and age groups as a middle and assistant referee by using excellent verbal instruction, and decision-making skills to upgrade to a grade 6 referee


## Education
### Bachelor of Software Engineering - BSE
University of Waterloo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023

### OSSD with Honours and Awards
Preston High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/saman
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/saman/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22