Summary
Sahand Saba is a Senior Software Engineer II with 12 years of experience building high-scale systems at Google, Meta, and now Qualified, combining deep theoretical CS and mathematics with pragmatic engineering. He led major projects such as Apps Script’s V8 runtime and reliability/efficiency improvements across Search serving infrastructure, and built market-specific systems like Facebook’s Burmese font-detection and auto-conversion that materially improved adoption in emerging markets. Comfortable across the stack, he has driven large optimizations that cut storage and CPU costs, designed parallel data pipelines with analytics front-ends, and shipped performance wins for Android startup and registration flows. He also brings academic rigor from an M.Sc. in Computer Science and years teaching algorithms and mathematics, which informs his systematic approach to problem solving. Outside core roles he authors technical writing at sahandsaba.com and has a history of inventing domain-specific tooling and GPU-based media engines, showing a persistent curiosity for both low-level performance and product impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of Victoria