About

Santosh Kewat is an accomplished Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working at Alteryx and previously held the position of Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on building big data applications, high volume ETLs, and streaming pipelines. Santosh has a strong background in software engineering and is proficient in AWS, computer vision, Elastic Search, microservices, search, backend, web, NodeJS, and ReactJS. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Santosh was responsible for developing a full-stack framework for quickly bootstrapping web development, integrating custom router, history support, build and deployment. He also conceptualized a consolidated data store for derivatives' reference data across the firm, to avoid data duplication, maintain data lineage and integrity. Additionally, he used Apache Spark to build a smart inventory age tracking application running on a recursive graph-based algorithm, achieving a runtime of 45 min versus ~18 hours for the equivalent legacy application. Santosh also developed a resource-aware data purge framework, which supported dynamic throttling based on DB resource usage metrics. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Santosh worked as a Principal Software Engineer at BlueStone, a vertical e-commerce startup. He led the re-architecture of the e-commerce backend as microservices on AWS cloud for major functional, performance, and scalability gains. He also designed an enterprise (B2B) e-commerce platform that went on to achieve its target of 3x growth in business. Santosh is proficient in ElasticSearch and used it to power browse and search functionalities. He also led the re-write of the web platform using ReactJS, NodeJS, and Nginx. Santosh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. He is a seasoned professional with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software solutions. Santosh is a quick learner, an excellent team player, and is passionate about technology.