Saurabh Chand
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Chand is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience and a B.Tech plus M.S. by Research in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad, currently working at Microsoft in Hyderabad. He blends production engineering at scale with deep research-rooted problem solving, having progressed from internships and research roles to SWE2 positions within Microsoft. An active open-source contributor and GSoC 2020 participant, he has meaningfully extended Synfig Studio’s Lottie exporter—adding complex convert methods, gradient support, and important bug fixes that improved animation export fidelity. Comfortable across backend systems and tooling, he has also applied data science internship experience to practical engineering problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs careful refactoring and bug fixes with feature-driven delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Army Public School, Nehru RoadB.Tech and M.S by Research Computer Science, B.Tech and M.S by Research Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
vector-graphics10
cprogramming-language10
animation10
apidoc9
2d9
api9
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
synfig/synfig
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
This is the Official source code repository of the Synfig project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 31 commits, 28 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributed to the Lottie exporter plugin for the Synfig Studio animation software. Their work involved implementing and expanding the functionality of the plugin, including support for new convert methods like sine, cos, aTan2, vector angle, and others, which enhanced the Lottie export capabilities. They also focused on code cleanup, refactoring, and bug fixes, such as addressing gamma correction and blur layer ordering issues, leading to more robust and feature-rich export. Additionally, they introduced support for linear and radial gradients and corrected the output of outlines.
animationgtkmmsynfigc-plus-plusvector-graphics
Konigari/Mixed-Initiative
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
Project on Mixed Initiative
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 1 month
reactinitiative
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