Summary
Sourabh Punja is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building data-driven systems and UIs, currently focused on backend engineering at Instawork in San Francisco. He specializes in Python, AWS, Postgres and React, and has designed high-throughput scraping and data-cleaning pipelines that scaled to 50,000+ scrapes/day while cutting execution costs by roughly 70%. Sourabh pairs cloud automation (ECS, GitHub Actions, boto3) with pragmatic SQL and parallel processing optimizations to improve performance and observability, and he’s delivered APIs and React visualizations that make complex entity relationships explorable. His background includes full-stack co-op work on realtime speech-analysis tooling and an early career in QA automation, giving him a strong testing-first mindset and cross-stack fluency. He holds a CS master’s from Northeastern and is driven to learn and apply new software patterns to production-grade data problems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.64 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.64 GPA at Manipal Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.85 GPA, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.85 GPA at Northeastern University
Secondary, Science, 85%, Secondary, Science, 85% at Little Rock Indian School
English, Hindi, Tulu, Kannada