Saurabh Kathpalia
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Kathpalia is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend and full-stack systems, currently driving platform work at Uber from Bellevue. Trained at IIIT Hyderabad, he blends strong algorithmic skills and web-development instincts with hands-on experience automating financial close workflows, reconciliation pipelines, and health-checking platforms that operate at scale. He has a history of shipping practical tooling at Adobe—contributing to the popular Brackets editor by adding multi-encoding support, native menus, and packaging fixes—and actively contributes to open source. Comfortable across languages and layers, he pairs production-first engineering with mentoring and teaching experience from IIIT and Google Summer of Code. Notably, he combines deep systems thinking with front-end sensitivity, having implemented features from encoding detection to reverse inspect in live previews.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pratap Public SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (16)
file-processing10
windows10
file-handling10
macos10
c-language10
character-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
file-access10
fileio10
utf10
icu10
gruntjs9
front-end-development9
g9
javascript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/brackets-shell
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
CEF3-based application shell for Brackets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 commits, 24 PRs, 61 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily focused on improving the Brackets application's functionality and stability. They addressed bug fixes related to cache size limitations and context menu entries. The user also contributed to upgrading the application's version and implementing encoding support for Windows and Mac, including detecting character sets and handling UTF-8 BOM. Additionally, the user worked on packaging essential runtime libraries and fixing a crash issue.
shell
loconsolutions/Housing_Panorama
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:152 PRs, 164 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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