Somnath Saha
Senior Software Development Engineer at Adobe
California, United States
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Top SchoolSomnath Saha is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building core technologies for industry leaders, currently driving Content Extraction and Accessibility for Adobe's T5 PDF Core Engine in San Jose. He has led modernization efforts that doubled performance in core workflows, hardened PDF handling for malformed documents, and migrated cryptography layers for Acrobat Desktop while patching high-priority security issues. Earlier, he led development of Questa Lint at Mentor Graphics, blending deep C/C++ systems work with team building, hiring, and mentoring. Comfortable across web apps, EDA tools, and PDF security/accessibility domains, Somnath combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership at scale—impacting products used by over 500 million monthly users. A persistent tinkerer from his embedded and hardware roots, he brings pragmatism and a habit of surfacing low-level insights that yield measurable system improvements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation and Control, First Class with Distinction and Merit Scholarship, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation and Control, First Class with Distinction and Merit Scholarship at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyPhysics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science at St. George's School, AlaknandaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, BanglaProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saha-somnath/Data-Structure
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
saha-somnath/Sports-Action-Recognition
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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