Sahil Ashar
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSahil A is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience delivering scalable AI/ML and cloud-native systems at the intersection of gaming, data, and platform infrastructure. He currently contributes to Bloomberg AI - Research Indexing and previously built cross-platform C++ SDKs and high-performance multiplayer networking for PlayFab/Xbox Live at Microsoft, driving CI/CD, telemetry, and onboarding improvements. His career includes impactful stints at Riot Games, KUNGFU.AI, and Bridges Capital Ventures, spanning data pipelines, game data engineering, and enterprise software. Notably, he co-founded the Texas Rocket Engineering Lab, leading avionics and real-time flight software efforts and scaling diverse teams from 4 to 50+, demonstrating hands-on systems engineering and Agile leadership. An UT Austin ECE graduate, he blends hardware-informed software chops with production-grade engineering and has contributed to open-source infrastructure such as libHttpClient used across Xbox and PlayFab SDKs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English
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Github Skills (42)
abstraction10
websocket10
abstraction-layer10
api10
xbox-live10
overlap10
xbox10
runner10
telemetry10
github-actions-runner9
plugin9
blueprint9
ios9
xamarin9
windows9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SahilAshar/personalsite_v1
Apr 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 61 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 1 month
SahilAshar/EE461L-DatabaseApp
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:1 release, 31 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 months
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