Summary
Sayantan Saha is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience and 11 years focused on building large-scale, secure cloud services, currently leading foundational efforts for AWS DocumentDB in the Greater Seattle area. He drives high-availability, authentication/authorization, encryption, resource governance, and advanced query capabilities (Vector, Analytics, GenAI) that power 99.99% SLA-critical workloads. His team delivered high-impact features like IAM database authentication, client-side encryption, role-based access control, DML query auditing, and Vector Search for DocumentDB. Prior roles at Amazon and Microsoft show a pattern of owning end-to-end developer and CICD experiences, building secure data custodians, and shipping platform integrations from day one. He pairs deep systems and security expertise with a history of shipping production-grade database and platform features used at petabyte scale. An IIT Delhi alumnus, he combines academic rigor with practical, operational excellence across distributed systems and database engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
10+2 (Higher Secondary - WBCHSE) Maths Physics Statistics Chemistry, 10+2 (Higher Secondary - WBCHSE) Maths Physics Statistics Chemistry at Ramakrishna Mission V.C. College, Rahara
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, B.E. Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University
10 (Madhyamik - WBBSE) Mathematics Physical Sciences Life Sciences Geography History Literature (English and Bengali), 10 (Madhyamik - WBBSE) Mathematics Physical Sciences Life Sciences Geography History Literature (English and Bengali) at Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home, Rahara