# Saurav Singh > Software Engineer | Prev @ ION | Building REST APIs and Systems Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sauravsingh A Master's degree graduate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, with a background in Electrical Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. Academic pursuits reflect a strong foundation in software engineering principles and a focus on backend and infrastructure development. Former Software Engineer at ION, where contributions included building high-performance infrastructure and deploying an Order and Execution Management System across Bahrain and Muscat exchanges. Skills include backend engineering, REST APIs, and collaborative filtering, with a focus on delivering scalable and efficient solutions. Seeking new graduate software engineering roles for 2026. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ ION Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Built high performance Infrastructure and Backend services using C++17, TCL and Python, processing 100M+ events/day with sub-ms P99 on production paths; owned on-call and release hygiene. • Architected and deployed an Order and Execution Management System for the Bahrain and Muscat exchanges, leveraging C++, Python, and AWS to enable straight-through processing of Equities, Securities, and Bonds. • Automated daily environment setup & update notifications (Python + cron) across 5 teams, saving 15+ engineer-hours/week. • Built AWS Glue ETL moving 10M+ rows from RDS/S3 → Snowflake; pruned scans and added partitioning, cutting ETL time by 25% and unblocking daily analytics. • Added Postgres indexes, query plans, and Redis read-through cache for static data; reduced API P99 to 60% and deleted 5k+ LOC of bespoke caching. • Engineered and maintained 20+ microservices using C++, Python and Java each being its own financial subsystem and automated their testing using the Robot framework and seamlessly integrated them with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline. • Led the migration of over 30 Data Feed Handlers from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 providing newer features and enhanced security to more than 100 clients. ### C++ Developer @ ION Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | India ### Software Engineer @ ION Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineer @ Fidessa Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Backend Engineer in the Market Data team. - Built an end to end feed handler for Muscat Securities Market and Bahrain Stock Exchange on the Fidessa platform that processes over 2,000,000 trades per day. - Improved efficiency of Asia and Australian Feed handler by over 30% by rewriting/refactoring legacy code and reducing function calls by over 50%. ### Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New Delhi, Delhi, India ### Software Engineer Intern @ ByteLearn Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New Delhi, Delhi, India ### Software Engineer Intern @ ByteLearn Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Enhanced chatbot functionality by creating and debugging over 10 problem templates, increasing student interaction efficiency by 25%, by developing Python scripts using Low Code Platform, JSON, and Jinja, and generating payloads with Postman. • Optimized API latency by 10% and enhanced system scalability by implementing multithreading and transitioning microservices to an event-driven architecture with RedisMQ and Redis Streams. ### Subject Matter Expert @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ IOSD Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New Delhi ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering University of Maryland ### B.Tech in Electrical Engineering Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology ### Modern Delhi Public School - India ### Carmel Convent school, Faridabad ### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Netaji Subhas University of Technology ### Master's Degree in Computer Science University of Maryland ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sauravs31 --- Source: https://flows.cv/sauravsingh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sauravsingh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29