About

Saksham Bathla is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with over 4 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science degree at the University of Florida and is actively seeking summer internships for 2022. Saksham has a strong background in backend technologies such as SpringBoot, Node.Js, Ruby on Rails, and more. He has worked on a diverse set of projects solving a wide range of problems, including building a chess engine and working on genomic data to improve cancer prognosis prediction. Saksham has worked as a Software Development Engineer at two of the top Indian startups, including urban company, a home services marketplace, where he worked as a part of the pricing and catalog team. During his time there, he played a key role in the re-architecture of the pricing system and the migration of the catalog service from Javascript to Typescript. He reduced the man-hours required by the content and business teams to maintain prices and catalogs by more than 80 percent. Prior to this, Saksham worked as a Software Development Engineer at OYO, one of the largest hospitality chains in the world. Here, he primarily worked in the Availability and Occupancy team and was responsible for several company-wide initiatives. He played a key role in the monolith to microservices migration for availability, occupancy, and related services, reducing the latency of availability APIs by 75 percent. He also developed a machine learning model for cancellation prediction post booking to overbook in case of high cancellation chances, leading to an increased final occupancy of about 10 percent in high occupancy hotels. Saksham has a strong educational background, having completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, and is currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science degree from the University of Florida. He has a wide range of technical skills, including Javascript, AWS, Typescript, Backend, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Ruby, NodeJS, ML, Microservices, Java, MySQL, Spring, Flask, Postgres, and infra. Overall, Saksham is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong educational background and a wide range of technical skills. He is a quick learner and a team player who is passionate about solving complex problems and building innovative solutions.