Swara Saxena
San Jose,CA
Summary
Persistent professional equipped with 8 years of comprehensive experience in Finance industry. Provides strong technical direction across multiple projects. Responsible and articulate individual with strengths in solutions optimization, cloud solutions and project management.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
02.2016 - Current
- Support and enhance StreetAccount SIFT and FactSet.IO Products by building smart tools following agile methodology using back-end and front-end technologies like C#, .NET stack, SQL, jQuery, JavaScript for content writers to provide news
- Analyze and improve system performance each quarter by 10-15% through speed sprints
- Managed an intern for summer 2020 to help integrate cognitive computing Named Entities API for identifying and highlighting entities like locations, people, and companies in news stories in SIFT
- Integrate services to FactSet.IO cloud platform and implement Amazon S3 file storage for Edgar filings processor on FactSet.IO cloud for SIFT thereby enhancing performance of processing different press releases and news stories by 10%
- Integrate 3rd party feeds into SIFT to broaden news coverage for Asian market.
Software Developer Co-op
Bluewolf
01.2015 - 07.2015
- Designed and delivered unique cloud-based business solutions using agile methodology and test-driven development techniques for multiple clients
- Developed web applications using Salesforce.com platform, building both back-end and front-end solutions using Visualforce, Apex, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
- Led development efforts for various client projects worth over $300K.
Software Developer Intern
Walmart Labs
06.2014 - 08.2014
- Developed JAX-RS REST Services for uploading and retrieving buy plans and pre-item details for merchants/buyers
- Created unit tests for backend REST Services for uploading and retrieving buy plans and pre-item details
- Performed functional and regression tests for Merchant Center application and improved bug reporting by creating dashboards.
Consultant
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2010 - 07.2013
- Led the user acceptance test, functional test, and performance test activities for IBM's Global Move system
- Automated assignment initiation, assignee data management, assignment data management and end of assignment features of GM system thereby reducing time and efforts for regression testing by 13%
- Analyzed the system performance by conducting various load and stress tests.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science -
Northeastern University
Boston, MA01.2015
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Technology -
SNDT University
Mumbai, India01.2010
Skills
- C#
- Python
- VB
- SQL
- ASPNET
- HTML
- LINQ
- CSS
- Vue JS
- TypeScript
- Web application development
- Amazon Web Services
- Project Leadership
Websites
Accomplishments
- Received the FY2020 FactSet CEO Equity Award for being a top consistent performer
- Received multiple Outstanding and Applause Awards for being a top performer at Deloitte
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
02.2016 - Current
Software Developer Co-op
Bluewolf
01.2015 - 07.2015
Software Developer Intern
Walmart Labs
06.2014 - 08.2014
Consultant
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2010 - 07.2013
Master of Science in Computer Science -
Northeastern University
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Technology -
SNDT University