# Saravanan Adaikkalavan

> Staff software engineer at Box

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saravananadaikkalavan

Energetic Software Engineer with 6+ years of Experience in developing robust applications for high volume businesses with Security and usability in mind. An enthusiastic team player and proactively looking for challenges to solve.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineering LMTS @ Salesforce
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering SMTS @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
• Tasked with ownership/leading the development of Retail.net platform Security application and Identity Management application (IDM).
• Implemented a new tool that would be run by system admins to migrate all the password policies for maintaining the updated standards of the industry.

### Software Engineer MTS @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
• Enhance and maintain identity management solution. 
• Developed a utility that can be used by administrators for migrating the existing passwords to latest standards of password encryption.
• Lead the development of schema tools(which improved the manual schema generation time by 60%) to build and manage retail applications.
• Implemented a new tool which generates an action xml to build a new store site from headquarters.
• Participated in code reviews and documented required design & analysis documents for applications.

### Software Developer @ Modis (University of Rochester)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Lead the team in the development of this product that is used by doctors/nurses for reports generations on medical databases. 
• Designed server side framework and developed file upload and core report generation java modules using Spring framework.
• Developed various web pages for the product using LabKey client APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and Ext JS. 
• Configured and setup Virtual Machine development environment with LabKey, Tomcat, Git, PSQL and Java 8 for the team.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Zoho Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
• Developed software (full-stack) for the web using JAVA, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML and CSS.
• Procured knowledge of security and handled throttling in web applications as part of the security team.
• Implemented various features like Two Factor Authentication and Mobile/Web based sign-in.
• Played crucial role in coding SMS/Call options for Two Factor Authentication using Telesign REST/SOAP APIs.
• Designed pages optimized for the web and mobile site using CSS media queries for all Zoho applications.
• Integrated authentication of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo in Zoho Applications.
• Programmed, debugged, deployed and tested client/server side applications on the web and mobile site.
• Queried MYSQL database and embedded queries in UNIX scripts used to analyze statistics for the features.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Anna University Chennai


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12