Apoorv Saxena
Engineering Leader at Amazon
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolApoorv Saxena is an engineering leader with 11+ years building high-performance, cloud-native products and scaling teams from startup to enterprise. He has repeatedly delivered low-latency, high-concurrency systems for gaming, fintech and ad-tech, driving cost optimizations (including a $1M annual AWS saving) and migrations from monoliths to microservices. Known as a hands-on architect and persistent manager, he blends developer productivity initiatives (GitHub Copilot, DevOps automation) with performance coaching and public speaking. He is also an active open-source creator—author of lozad.js, a tiny (~1kb) lazy-loader that has become widely adopted. Based in New Delhi, he excels at turning ambiguous product goals into reliable, scalable platforms while nurturing self-organized teams. Colleagues describe him as an engaged, fearless leader who prioritizes quality and on-time delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
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Github Skills (14)
html10
javascript10
lazy-loading10
lazyload10
image10
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
css6
google-chrome-extension6
google-chrome6
hadoop6
webrtc6
jquery6
replication6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ApoorvSaxena/lozad.js
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
🔥 Highly performant, light ~1kb and configurable lazy loader in pure JS with no dependencies for responsive images, iframes and more
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 129 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Apoorv primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project. They modified the core JavaScript code to implement lazy loading functionality, specifically changing the way the image selector was defined. They fixed a JavaScript-disabled issue and resolved image display problems in the demo, and added support for responsive images and background images. The user also updated the project's meta tags and performed minor code optimizations.
dependenciesperformantpure-jsiframesjavascript
ApoorvSaxena/async-resolver
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
⚖️ Asynchronously resolve subscribed decisions in pub-sub architecture in pure JS
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
decision-makingdecisionsresolvecallbacksresolver
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