Neelesh Saxena
Software Engineer at Splunk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeelesh Saxena is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable enterprise and security-focused applications, currently contributing to Splunk's Behavioral Analytics and previously shaping RSA NetWitness Suite. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems and cloud platforms with strong front-end skills in JavaScript frameworks (Ember/React) to deliver end-to-end solutions and polished UIs. His work emphasizes performance, observability and automation—examples include improving Aurora cluster resilience with RDS Proxy, adding Prometheus metrics for Java microservices, and creating Terraform modules for credential rotation. Comfortable across big-data ecosystems (Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB) and messaging systems, he pairs pragmatic architecture choices with hands-on prototyping and production rollouts. Neelesh mentors junior engineers, leads hackathon projects to production, and enjoys making trade-offs between websockets vs REST, DB selection and microservice design. Based in San Francisco, he brings an academic grounding from Northeastern and a practical appetite for apps that meaningfully improve business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Science at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)Masters of Science (M.S.) Information Systems, Masters of Science (M.S.) Information Systems at Northeastern University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
tuple8
ember8
emberjs7
javascript7
aws-lambda6
ember-power-select6
javascript-framework5
lambda4
typeahead2
redux2
ecmascript2
react2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neeleshsaxena/neeleshsaxena.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
neeleshsaxena/eventsManager
Aug 2018 - Jul 2026
React/Redux app that consumes ticketmaster's API to display concert events in and around chosen city
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
reactredux
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