About

Saswat Baruah is an experienced Engineering Manager with a demonstrated history of leading teams in fast-paced environments. He is skilled in driving strategy, coaching, and managing teams by providing continuous feedback. Saswat is a polyglot programmer and is well-versed in designing distributed systems, TCP/IP, HTTPS, Linux, and Multithreading. He has hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, and AWS. Currently, Saswat is working as an Engineering Manager at gobolt where he leads a team of 10+ members. He is responsible for handling Yard Management System that takes care of orchestrating in-plant workflows. Saswat partners with cross-functional designers, product managers, and other engineering teams in various features. He regularly works on taking and providing feedback through 1:1s and maintains learning goals for each team member. Prior to his current role, Saswat worked at gobolt as a Technical Lead. He designed, implemented, and shipped multiple workflow orchestrations using Azure durable functions. He started as an individual contributor and gradually grew as a mentor and team lead, the team size grew to 10 members over a year. He also worked with gRPC, Python, Javascript, and Typescript. Before that, he worked at privafy as a Senior Software Engineer where he designed, developed, and shipped multiple microservices. He worked on services using Redis and Postgres and extensively used HTTP(synchronous) and NATS(message queue for asynchronous communication). He also used json, protobuf, and cbor for messaging. Saswat completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from bits pilani in 2014. He has a relevant experience of 9.03 years and his tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Python, Javascript, AWS, Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Software Engineer, Redis, Typescript, Azure, SQL, Microservices, Postgres, test, and ui.