About

Sayantan Saha is an Engineering Leader at AWS with over 10 years of experience in designing best-in-class engineering solutions for complex real world problems. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University. Sayantan is currently leading the development of one of the best-in-class document databases at AWS DocumentDB, where he is responsible for leading Protocol, Quality of Service, Security, Resource Governance, and Availability aspects of the project. Prior to this, he worked on cellularizing Amazon's Info-Sec approved de-facto secure data custodian system used for managing all critical digital assets, handling billions of documents for 150+ services and thousands of internal and external users at thousands of TPS/QPS. Previously, Sayantan worked at Microsoft as a Software Engineer on Azure Service Fabric, where he worked on enabling Java programmability on Linux for Service Fabric, Microsoft's flagship Platform As a Service product. He was a core member of the development team from day 0 of the v0 project and built the build, integration, automated validation framework for java from scratch and integrated it with Linux and existing Microsoft tools and technology for v0 of the project. He also implemented the management APIs for querying the service fabric cluster, for managing a stateful/stateless service, components needed to talk to native Service Fabric run-time for callbacks and for life-cycle management etc - in Java and corresponding JNI code in C++. Sayantan has a strong technical background in AWS, Azure, Java, Jenkins, Docker, Integration, SQL, Spring, and other relevant technologies. He has mentored, bootstrapped, and grown teams to work on multiple cross-cutting engineering facets of the solutions. Sayantan is currently hiring strong engineers across levels to build the best-in-class document database for cloud at AWS. With 12.53 years of relevant experience, Sayantan is a skilled engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions to complex problems.