Soam Vasani is a software engineer with nine years of experience currently at Stripe, bringing strong backend and infrastructure expertise to cloud-native and serverless systems. He has entrepreneurial roots as founder of Cohesion.dev and Glimmer, showing a knack for launching developer-focused products and services. His open-source work on fission — building a Node.js function runtime container and storage service — highlights practical experience creating robust serverless runtimes and testing tooling. With an M.Eng. from Cornell and a B.E. in Computer Science, he pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on production engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves quickly from prototype to reliable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng., Computer Science, M.Eng., Computer Science at Cornell University
B.E., Computer Science, B.E., Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 428 commits, 334 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Soam primarily contributed to the development of a NodeJS function runtime container and a storage service. Their work involved creating the foundational components for executing NodeJS functions, including handling requests, loading user code, and implementing specialization functionality. The user also improved the code by making it more robust, and added a rudimentary testing script. Their contributions demonstrate expertise in building and managing the core infrastructure for serverless functions.
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