Saksham Garg
Associate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaksham Garg is an Associate software engineer in New York with eight years of professional experience and a Master's in Computer Science from NYU Courant. He has three years of product-focused engineering at Altair and currently applies his skills at Goldman Sachs, blending backend systems, data engineering, and machine learning. Proficient in Python, C, SQL, and Apache Spark, he has a track record of shipping robust features and performance improvements—such as making daemon logging asynchronous and fixing qsub environment handling—in the widely used openpbs workload manager. His background includes hands-on research in 3D image reconstruction for nutrition estimation and teaching big data, cybersecurity, and regression courses at NYU, reflecting both applied research and mentoring strengths. Combining enterprise software delivery with open-source contributions to HPC tooling, he brings a practical, systems-oriented approach to scalable data and compute problems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer and Communication Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at NYU Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science
Github Skills (12)
windows10
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sh10
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shell10
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job-scheduling10
devops9
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automations7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openpbs/openpbs
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
An HPC workload manager and job scheduler for desktops, clusters, and clouds.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 31 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Saksham primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `qsub` command within the PBS Professional workload manager, addressing issues related to environment variable handling and background process execution. They implemented fixes to correctly export environment variables when the `-V` option is enabled, ensuring proper job submission behavior. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the Windows build process, including fixes to the post-installation script and handling of the `qstat` command. Additionally, the user has made several commits to make logging asynchronous for the daemons to improve the performance.
slurmprovisioningschedulingclustersscheduler
CSCI-GA-2820-SP23-003/wishlists
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
NYU DevOps Wishlists Service Spring 2023
Contributions:29 reviews, 37 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 months
microservicepythonrest-api
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