Raj Sachdeva

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Staff Software Engineer, Summit Learning - LSP · compilers · VS Code extensions

Summit Learning
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Staff Software Engineer at Summit Learning, focused on developer tools. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 40% in two quarters. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on CLI design
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Best reached early in the week

Skills
RustVS Code extensionsTypeScriptLSPcompilersCLI design

Experience

  1. Staff Software Engineer
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Summit Learning · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Shipped 26 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 27 engineers.
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 31 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
    American Express · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 29 a week to 3.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
    ITC · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 32 engineers.
  4. Software Engineer
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
    Tech Mahindra · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 304ms to 71ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Aug 2019
    Paytm · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 19 a week to 4.
    • Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 16 million requests a day.

Projects

Write-up: developer tools in practice
2024

A long-form guide to developer tools for people starting out.

Developer tools benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing compilers and CLI design on real workloads.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. College of Engineering, Pune
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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