Soubhik Rakshit is a backend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building efficient systems and improving user experience, currently contributing to Meta’s Training and Inference Accelerator. He has built low-level and tooling projects like Smash, a dynamic compressing memory allocator in C++, and SnakeProf, a time-and-space profiler for Python, showing strength across languages and performance engineering. Prior to Meta he moved up through Walmart Global Tech to a senior role, combining production-scale service development with optimization work. He hosts and continuously deploys his personal site and blog on GitHub/Netlify, reflecting hands-on DevOps and web deployment skills. Based in the NYC area with an MS from UMass Amherst and a BTech from IIEST Shibpur, he pairs academic grounding with practical, production-first engineering. Outside work he practices card tricks, NYT crosswords and soccer, signaling a curiosity for both sleight-of-hand detail and strategic problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Technology at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
MS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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