About

Saty Anand is an experienced Software Engineer with a focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, search, and a bit of frontend development. He has expertise in using technologies such as Go, Java, Kafka, Zookeeper, Cassandra, MySQL, Node.js, and React.js. Saty has a master's degree in Computing Systems and has been working as a Software Engineer II at Uber for the past three years. At Uber, Saty has worked on uSearch, a corporate e2e search system based on Apache Solr. He has improved search relevance by working on indexing and query pipelines backend along with the frontend in Fusion.JS for internal Uber employees. Saty has also designed Golang services to use the same backend to provide Search as a Service to other internal and external services at Uber. He has improved search performance 4x, uptime to 99.99 while making it easier for other teams to integrate with Search in other applications. Saty has also worked on search quality and metrics using Spark and custom data pipelines in Python. Before joining Uber, Saty worked as a Software Engineer at Uber and gained experience in various technologies such as JavaScript, Python, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, MySQL, MongoDB, ML, NoSQL, SQL, microservices, Ansible, deep learning, Kubernetes, Docker, research scientist, and Pytorch. Saty holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. With over three years of relevant experience, Saty is a skilled Software Engineer with a strong technical background. He has a diverse tech stack and is always willing to learn and work on new technologies.