Saurav Sachidanand
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurav Sachidanand is a Software Engineer II with a decade of systems engineering experience, currently building and optimizing the EC2 Nitro hypervisor for AWS in Berlin. He specializes in low-level C/C++/Python development, Linux kernel work, and at-scale production operations, having led projects across ARM (Graviton), Intel and AMD platforms. Notable achievements include enabling Nitro on Graviton 4 hardware, cutting a 12TB memory-scrub from two hours to one minute via pthread and NUMA optimizations, and designing fleet-wide CPU defect detection that runs without impacting customer workloads. He pairs production debugging and on-call incident leadership with ship-ready engineering deliverables like continuous regression tests, firmware live-updates, and SecureBoot/SEV-SNP enabling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Servo browser engine’s input and canvas subsystems and brings prior internships at HackerRank and CERN (GSoC) to his systems-first mindset. Colleagues know him for tackling thorny platform problems end-to-end and translating hardware topology into reliable hypervisor features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at PES UniversityCBSE, Computer Science, CBSE, Computer Science at National Public School
English
Github Skills (9)
webbrowser10
rust10
browser10
websockets-client8
websocket8
client-websocket8
websocket-client8
webidl7
web-platform7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
servo/servo
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 17 PRs, 52 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Saurav contributed to the Servo browser engine by implementing and modifying features related to the HTML input element and canvas rendering. They added `setSelectionRange` functionality to the HTML input element, including the necessary supporting methods and data structures. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the canvas rendering context, transitioning some properties from `DOMString` to enums. Additionally, they updated the WebSocket blocked ports and inlined certain HTMLCollection functions.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
saurvs/astro-rust
Dec 2015 - Jul 2018
Astronomical algorithms in Rust
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 523 pushes in 2 years 7 months
astronomical-algorithmsaltituderustorbitastrodynamics
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