Melwyn Saldanha
Software Engineer Intern at Paychex
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMelwyn Saldanha is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building compilers, backend systems, and developer tooling, currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at RIT with a 4.0 GPA. He has modernized legacy COBOL tax systems into Java microservices at Paychex, optimized LIGO’s pattern-matching to cut generated code size by up to 80%, and boosted tooling performance and API latency across startups using Rust, Go, Java, and cloud-native patterns. Comfortable across the stack—from WebGL-based video editors and React frontends to Golang macros and Java Spring backends—he focuses on pragmatic performance wins that improve developer productivity. An active open-source contributor, he has improved esy’s package parsing and dependency workflows for Reason/OCaml projects, reflecting a strong interest in functional programming and build systems. Melwyn is seeking roles in Software or Compiler Engineering where he can apply compiler theory and systems skills to drive measurable efficiency and scalability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering
French, English, Konkani, Hindi
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Github Skills (7)
dependency-management10
text-parsing10
parsing10
reasonml10
ocaml10
build-system9
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
esy/esy
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
package.json workflow for native development with Reason/OCaml
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 15 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Melwyn primarily contributed to the parsing and configuration aspects of the `esy/esy` repository, which involves managing package dependencies and build processes for Reason/OCaml projects. Their work included enhancing the parsing of git URLs to support port numbers, as well as fixing the handling of special characters in URLs. They also introduced features related to "extra sources" for dependencies, showing a focus on expanding the flexibility of dependency management. These contributions demonstrate their involvement in maintaining and improving core functionality related to project builds and dependencies.
native-developmentpackage-jsonocamljsonworkflow
melwyn95/learn-idris
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:61 commits in 3 months
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