Aayush Saxena
Senior Backend Engineer at Hinge
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAayush Saxena is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for consumer and enterprise products, currently shaping recommender infrastructure on Hinge’s Discovery & Algorithms team. He has deep expertise in core backend architecture, microservices, API integrations, and migrating monoliths to Kubernetes-based deployments from roles at Sonos, Metromile, Tesla, and Hinge. Notable wins include leading Sonos’s high-throughput subscription platform (handling millions of requests per minute), implementing Pay-Per-Mile integrations and logging standards at Metromile, and shipping billing solutions for Tesla Energy. He’s also an experienced mentor and educator—having taught software engineering through TEALS and mentored interns displaced by COVID—bringing a user-centered, socially minded approach to tooling and systems design. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on implementation with cross-functional leadership to deliver reliable services under strict uptime and security constraints.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, Computer Science, High School Degree, Computer Science at Delhi Public School, Vasant KunjStudy Abroad, Spanish Language and Literature, Study Abroad, Spanish Language and Literature at University of DeustoBachelor's Degree, Informatics, Bachelor's Degree, Informatics at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at New Era Public School - India
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
zap8
logging8
structured-logging7
logger7
logrus7
golang6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aayush19saxena/DocumentStorage
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
aayush19saxena/portfolio
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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