Summary
Hrishikesh Sathe is a software engineer based in Sunnyvale with a decade-plus background and roughly 3 years focused on designing and building scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Java. He has shipped production REST APIs and data-extraction tools for Watson for Drug Discovery at IBM, enabling large-batch entity queries (drugs, genes, diseases) and gene-ontology services used by researchers. Now at Atlassian, he continues to apply API-first design and service ownership practices honed across enterprise products. His early work includes building high-throughput LDAP-facing services at Okta and leading a Java/J2EE team at TCS, reflecting strong systems and integration experience. He pairs practical engineering (test coverage improvements, performance-minded implementations) with domain fluency in biomedical data, which helps bridge research needs and production constraints. Colleagues would describe him as a reliable service owner who turns complex data models into performant, well-tested APIs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.51, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.51 at University at Buffalo
Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi