Sajal Sarwar is a pragmatic CTO and backend architect with 11 years of experience building production-critical systems and shipping products from scratch across Indian startups like Practo, FloBiz, Orange Health and now BitSave. He specializes in backend architecture, authentication, queuing, observability and database design, and has a strong operational track record—on-call since 2016 with tight SLAs and average incident resolution measured in minutes. A hands-on leader, he has bootstrapped microservices, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, realtime chat and payment integrations, trained engineers into full product owners, and contributed Elixir libraries used in the wild. He holds an M.Tech from IIIT Hyderabad, taught data structures early in his career, and pairs deep algorithmic background with obsession over business metrics and customer ticket TATs. Outside work he rides a Royal Enfield and sketches, revealing a creative streak that complements his engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
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