Summary
Abhishek Sant is a Senior Engineering Manager in San Jose with 15 years in software and a Master’s in Computer Science, blending deep technical hands-on experience with six+ years of leadership. He has built and scaled mission-critical payment, reporting, and ML systems at PayPal—owning everything from Spark-based data pipelines and BigQuery/Bigtable architectures to low-latency inference with Triton and NVIDIA Merlin. Comfortable across Java, Python, React/Angular and cloud-native stacks, he has driven API and webhook strategies that deliver millions of daily reports and real-time merchant insights. Notably, he transitioned from infrastructure-focused roles (OpenTSDB, Kafka, ELK) to architecting production recommender pipelines using PyTorch, NVTabular and Transformer4Rec. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he pairs strategic execution with an emphasis on reliability and performance for fintech-scale workloads.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelors of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelors of Engineering Information Technology at Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science
Hindi, Marathi