Vimanyu Saxena

San Francisco,CA

Overview

years of professional experience

years of post-secondary education

Certification

Nextdoor

San Francisco, CA

02.2023 - Current

Depreciated 24 low performing Ad formats to simplify and improve client experience on Neighborhood Ad Centre.
Java, Python, Hive, Maven

Twitter

San Francisco, CA

11.2021 - 01.2023

Designed and led the backend development of throttling more zero-revenue Ad Requests, leading to cost savings of $4.77M per year by removing overprovisioned infrastructure resources.
Reduced unnecessary Adshard observability metrics, resulting in cost savings of $433K per year.
Optimized Admixer compression algorithm and reduced CPU utilization, which led to infrastructure cost savings of $160K per year.
Deprecated 6 data fetches in Admixer that were dead code.
Java, Scala, Python, Bazel, Hadoop, Cron, GCP BigQuery

American Express

New York, NY

08.2019 - 10.2021

Received the GCS Technology award for excellently leading the backend development of American Express' data insights and recommendation product, SpendIQ.
Co-designed and built SpendIQ's Peer Benchmarking feature which received 92% positive client feedback.
Restructured and improved SpendIQ’s data transformations logic and reduced its runtime by 12.5%
Enhanced SpendIQ‘s RESTful APIs and reduced their response times from an average of 7 seconds to less than 1 second.
Java, Hive, Spark, RESTful APIs, Maven, Hadoop, Bash, JavaScript, Angular

University Of California San Diego

09.2015 - 06.2019

Languages: Java, Python, C#, C, C, JavaScript, Bash, HTML, CSS, Matlab

Frameworks and Tools: Hadoop, Hive, GCP Big Query, Spark, Firebase, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Nodejs, Angular, AngularJS, React

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner