Saadiya Desai
Senior Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaadiya Desai is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of C++-focused experience building creative tooling and real-time systems for companies like Snap and Adobe. She’s driven key features in Snap’s AR game engine—leading the scripting system, package manager, and custom components—while also mentoring apprentices and improving on-call and recruiting programs. Her background spans graphics and content-creation tooling at Autodesk, ILM, and Redshift, where she delivered high-impact plugins and refactored large legacy codebases using modern C++ and scripting languages. Based in San Francisco and educated at the University of Waterloo, she combines production-grade engineering with product-minded design, often acting as the bridge between artists, QA, and engineering. Notably, she has a track record of shipping developer-facing systems that both simplify artist workflows and scale within complex creative pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Turner Fenton Secondary SchoolBCS Candidate for the Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, BCS Candidate for the Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of WaterlooProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saadiyadesai/saadiyadesai.github.io
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:255 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
saadiyadesai/project
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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