Saurabh Sahni
Principal Software Engineer at Slack
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Sahni is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 16 years of experience building large-scale internet products and developer platforms, currently shaping the Slack Developer Platform. He co-authored O'Reilly’s Designing Web APIs and has a strong track record at Yahoo where he led YDN architecture, commercialized API infrastructure, and earned Yahoo! Ratna recognition. Saurabh blends hands-on engineering, product leadership and research—having started with web caching research at IIT Bombay—and excels at turning developer ecosystems into sustainable businesses. Known for developer evangelism and presentations, he pairs deep systems design skills with a knack for shipping pragmatic, analytics-driven features that scale.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Devi Ahilya VishwavidyalayaExecutive Leadership Development Program, Executive Leadership Development Program at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Github Skills (21)
yahoo5
gmail-api5
yahoo-search5
google-api4
facebook4
api4
windows-live4
oauth4
php3
restful3
javascript3
restful-api3
facebook-api3
facebook-graph-api3
graph3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
saurabhsahni/Hacks
Jan 2010 - Feb 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 years 2 months
saurabhsahni/php-yahoo-oauth2
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
oauth2phpyahoooauth
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