Shubhank Saxena
Vice President Of Technology at First Round's On Me
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShubhank Saxena is a technology leader with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, blockchain applications, and full-stack products, currently serving as Vice President of Technology in Boston. He combines deep expertise in Django, Solidity, React and Ruby on Rails with a track record of shipping high-impact features—leading a team to onboard 5,000 users in a week and migrating 150k+ users with zero downtime. Shubhank has repeatedly improved performance and observability at scale, from architecting ETL and indexers for Ethereum/Polygon data to deploying Grafana/Prometheus stacks that cut critical response times dramatically. A serial open-source contributor and fellowship alumnus (Google Summer of Code, Kernel, MLH), he also holds patents and competition wins like Smart India Hackathon 2019, reflecting a blend of inventive research and product delivery. Currently pursuing graduate studies at Northeastern, he pairs academic rigor with practical system-building and a knack for turning experimental ideas—voice UIs, assistive devices, and LLM-driven integrations—into production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologySeth Anandram Jaipuria School GhaziabadMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at Northeastern UniversitySolidity Bootcamp Computer Science, Solidity Bootcamp Computer Science at Encode Club
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
101reputation
39kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (16)
html10
fest10
javascript8
css8
user-friendly8
friendly-url8
js7
pip6
psycopg6
apple-m16
docker6
celery6
docker-compose6
python6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
creative-computing-society/creative-computing-society.github.io
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
This is the Hacktoberfest first contribution website of CCS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:196 commits, 83 PRs, 109 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Shubhank primarily focused on front-end development tasks, adding and modifying UI elements. The user's commits show the addition of a card component to the `index.html` file. Further commits focused on website structure and content. The user also fixed a link on the website and changed the header and added new participants to the Hacktoberfest contribution list.
ccscssjavascriptfirst-contributionfirstpr-friendly
shubhank-saxena/My-Portfolio
Jun 2020 - Jul 2023
This is my repo for my Personal Website. It's a reflection of who I am!
Contributions:61 PRs, 234 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years
reactmy-repodjango-rest-frameworkdjangocss
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