Saikat Sarkar
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSaikat Sarkar is a Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years in production software, currently building secure systems at Elastic after senior roles at Coinbase and GitLab. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise (7+ years) alongside hands-on experience in Go, Python, JavaScript and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, frequently owning architecture and CI/CD for cross-functional projects. Saikat has a strong security and backend focus—maintaining GitLab SAST analyzers and designing security modules—while also shipping full-stack features for large enterprise products like Cisco AMP. He excels at mentoring teams, driving Scrum/Kanban delivery, and automating deployment pipelines (GoCD, Jenkins, Chef, Capistrano). A former academic researcher with multiple publications in networking, he combines rigorous systems thinking with practical engineering to solve complex distributed and security problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, 3.82/4.00, M.Sc., Computer Science, 3.82/4.00 at The University of CalgaryB.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bengali, English
Github Skills (61)
snyk10
kubernetes10
scanner10
python10
coinbase10
gosec10
circleci10
brakeman10
security-scanner9
supply-chain-security9
static-analysis9
npm9
audit9
source-code-analysis9
golang9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saikat056/hello
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
saikat-org/chat-room-056
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:109 PRs, 112 pushes, 40 branches in 3 months
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