Abhishek Harshit Saxena

Overview

I've spent 13 years on platform engineering - first at Freshworks, now at Swiggy. Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 17 engineers. Before that: Groww and Qualcomm. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Experience

1. Staff Platform Engineer

   Feb 2023 - Present
   Swiggy · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Moved 89% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped 7 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
2. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
   Groww · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 38% in two quarters.
3. Senior Platform Engineer

   Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
   Qualcomm · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Platform Engineer

   Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
   PwC · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 30 a week to 4.
5. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
   Freshworks · 9 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 752ms to 98ms.

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Education

1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

   B.Tech, Information Technology
   2008 - 2012