# Shashank Saxena

> Senior Software Engineer @ MongoDB

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

I like distributed systems!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ MongoDB
Jan 2021 – Present
Working in ☁️

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California
Worked on DynamoDB

### Software Developer Intern @ GSI Group, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
* Worked on GSI's Edge platform
* Assisted in refactoring and completely rearchitecting and organizing the codebase
* Worked solely on the backend with Node.js and tons of npm modules

### Data Engineering Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
* Designed a scalable architecture to process and parse sensitive internal data
* Implemented a 4-way pipeline to process big data (>1 petabytes) and served content through RESTful web API
* Worked with Apache Kafka, Accumulo, Spark, and Flask, and Python

### Software Engineering Intern @ Reconstruct
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- STARTUP -
* Working under Professor Derek Hoiem on reconstructing 3D model of images taken by drones
* Maintaining backend server that serves as a portal to the website
* Using Node.js, MongoDB, and GitHub

### Application Developer Intern @ Allstate
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | AllState Headquarters - Northbrook, IL
Internal Web App Developer:
* Automated tasks by connecting SharePoint to SQL and synchronizing policy data.
* Used Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE to improve and maintain internal web apps. Used C# and XML using Microsoft's ASP.NET framework combined with an internal framework. Database tools were SQL Server Management Studio along with executing LINQ queries.
* Learned about Team Foundation Server - Microsoft's centralized version control system.

### Systems/IT Intern @ State Farm ®
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Worked on several projects:
* LeadScape: Created a VB.NET application using Microsoft's Jet engine for MS Excel file support
* Used VB.NET and Microsoft Access
* Learned about SQL and SQL connections/queries

* RDC Website Redesign: Worked on redesigning a website.
* Focused more on the frontend, using HTML/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS, and BootStrap.
* NPM modules used were gulp, yo-generator, yo, and ng-poly (for backend)
* Learned about Node.js and backend servers for websites

* Worked on fixing some bugs on the front-end side of the internal website for State Farm interns.
* Used HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
* Learned about backend servers (Node.js)

* Updated a Microsoft SharePoint website to handle automation to increase speed and efficiency for internal processes.
* Fixed broken form submission and modified some UI elements for nicer display of web pages.
* Used JavaScript and learned about SharePoint website and information flow

### Course Staff Memeber @ DotStar
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Selected as a course staff member for an honors introductory prorgramming course. Lead a team in a project connecting all social media into one, unified mobile app.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School Diploma in Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program
Hoffman Estates High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shank96
- Website: http://www.shashanksaxena.me/

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Last updated: 2026-04-05