Summary
Sahil Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer at Roblox with a decade of experience building performant, user-focused systems and a strong academic foundation from UMass Amherst (MS) and Penn State (BS, Honors). He previously led search and application performance efforts at Eightfold, where he architected testing frameworks and cut search latencies by 40% for enterprise talent products. Comfortable across Python and JavaScript, Sahil has shipped end-to-end tracking and candidate-facing interfaces as well as backend performance tooling. His background includes research internships at IBM Almaden, reflecting a habit of bringing research-grounded techniques into production engineering. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems thinking with product empathy to improve real-world user experiences at scale. A detail not obvious from titles: he repeatedly focuses on measurable latency and UX gains, turning performance projects into direct business impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Schreyer Honors College at Penn State
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi