Saurabh Sharma
Building Something New at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSaurabh Sharma is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across startups and large tech companies. He co-founded Rye, an API-first commerce platform that raised $16M from a16z, and now leads product and engineering efforts at a stealth startup in San Francisco. Prior to founding Rye he was a Staff Engineer at Reddit, where he helped build early infrastructure for k8s, email, notifications and real-time systems, proving strong backend and platform chops. His career includes hands-on systems work at Microsoft and a CS degree from UC San Diego, reflecting a solid foundation in engineering. Known for starting and finishing projects with a quality-first mindset, he spans the full stack but shines in scalable infrastructure and developer-facing APIs. Outside the obvious, he combines founder-level product intuition with deep implementation experience, often bridging strategy and execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (85)
python-client10
build-automation10
client-library10
charts10
docker-compose10
continuous-delivery10
git10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
go10
docker10
docker-image10
devops10
helmfile10
build-pipelines10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jar-app/jarjs
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 59 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
reactfrontendjar
drone-test-org/reddit-mobile
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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