Summary
Saikat Bhadra is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building data-intensive backend systems and reporting platforms, currently at Netflix after four years shaping analytics and payment infrastructure at Square. He is fluent in Kotlin, Java, Python and Ruby and has a strong track record working with cloud data stacks (Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB), streaming (Kafka), and API layers (GraphQL, gRPC, Spring, Rails). Saikat blends engineering and product sensibility from earlier product management roles, enabling him to translate business requirements into robust, observable data pipelines and payment systems. He has delivered search, recommendations, and analytics work that reached media attention and has repeatedly improved release and operational processes. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he also took a deliberate career pause to travel the world, a choice that hints at broad curiosity and resilience outside the codebase.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin