Saurabh Sharma Senior Software Engineer · ThousandEyes
Engineer · Builder · Identity Platform

Senior software engineer shipping Login & Identity platforms by day, mobile + data tools by night.

Twelve years across risk, identity, and data infra at ThousandEyes (Cisco), PayPal, Deloitte, and Infosys. I design high-throughput backend systems and ship polished consumer mobile apps on the side.

Experience
12+ yrs
Backend, data, identity
Current role
Sr. SWE
ThousandEyes · Cisco · since Oct 2024
Focus area
Identity
Login & Identity Platform
Based in
San Jose, CA
Bay Area
Java Python Spring & Reactive Spring Kafka GCP BigQuery / BigTable AWS Flutter Swift / iOS Claude · Gemini AWS Solution Architect Associate
02 · Experience

Where I've built

From enterprise Java at Infosys to real-time risk data at PayPal to identity at Cisco — a dozen years of shipping production systems.

ThousandEyes · Cisco
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2024 — Present
San Jose, CA
  • Engineering on the Login & Identity Platform — the auth backbone used across ThousandEyes and its Cisco integrations.
  • Working on authentication flows, session management, and federated identity touchpoints in production.
PayPal
Software Engineer III (promoted from II)
Aug 2019 — Sep 2024
San Jose, CA
  • Revamped the Analytical Data Platform for the Risk domain, cutting analyst turnaround by 90%.
  • Designed a high-throughput distributed real-time ingestion pipeline for ML risk models, ensuring data quality at scale.
  • Led Smart Receipts collaboration across teams — significantly boosting rewards availability for customers.
  • Hardened pipeline monitoring & alerting; reduced data-quality noise by 30%.
  • Enhanced legacy events from 60 microservices on Risk Platform without compromising data quality.
  • Integrated SignalFx and Splunk into the core risk platform for unified custom metrics and dashboards.
  • Extended the Billing Agreement REST API with transaction indicators for better decisioning and fraud alerts.
  • Mentored junior engineers and interns; multiple Bravo Awards for cross-team collaboration.
Deloitte
Business Technology Analyst
May 2016 — Apr 2018
Mumbai, India
  • Built a Task Management API (adapter design pattern) adopted by seven cross-functional teams.
  • Designed a Spring-based batch framework that cut new-module development time by 30%.
  • Shipped a Java/JS/SQL tool implementing the application's security matrix in lock-step with release timelines.
  • Contributed to an Integrated Eligibility application on Spring MVC / REST.
  • Earned Applause, two Spot Awards, and the Thunderbird Award.
Infosys
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2013 — Apr 2016
Pune, India
  • Shipped enterprise apps on Spring MVC / JSP / jQuery / Hibernate under Agile.
  • Built a Java API to process multi-format files for reporting — cut manual work by 45%.
  • Designed REST interfaces and standardized JSON schemas between two web applications.
  • Earned a quarterly STAR Award.
03 · Projects

Featured projects

Most of my side work is in the engineering-adjacent space — personal finance, system design education, and AI-native consumer apps. A mix of Flutter, Swift, Python, and Rust.

2026

Wealth Compass

Your personal portfolio, navigated.
Private repo iOS · Android

A local-first portfolio manager for iOS and Android. 20 full financial tools — holdings, FIRE planner, Monte Carlo projections, mortgage refi comparisons, Claude AI co-pilot, macro regime dashboard — all in one private app. No servers, no tracking. Multi-file CSV import auto-detects Fidelity, E*TRADE, Robinhood. Face ID lock, 12-country/currency support.

Flutter Dart Claude API Local-first Biometric auth
2026

One Line Convo

Collaborative AI storytelling for kids.
Private repo iOS · Android · Web

A kid-friendly AI storytelling app (ages 6–15). Pick a persona (Sunny, Giggles, Spooky, Captain Epic, Weirdo, Detective), type a line, the AI writes the next — building a story together. Comic Mode transforms stories into illustrated panels (DALL-E 3 for OpenAI users, stylized procedural art for Gemini/Claude). Voice input/output, 8 visual themes, and a 3D page-flip comic reader with TTS narration.

Flutter Dart Multi-LLM (Claude · Gemini · OpenAI) DALL-E 3 TTS / STT
2026

SDTool — System Design Explorer

Native iOS app for system design study.
Public iOS 17+

A native iOS app for engineers to read system design articles, follow engineering blogs (Netflix, Uber, Airbnb…), study with flash cards, and get AI-powered explanations and multi-turn chat on any article. Markdown + Mermaid rendering, Firebase auth, biometric lock.

Swift SwiftUI Firebase Gemini API
2026

SD Problem Generator

YAML → SDTool problem JSON, via Claude.
Public CLI

A Python CLI that ingests a YAML problem spec plus solution screenshots and pipes them through the Anthropic API to produce structured JSON consumed by SDTool. The authoring pipeline behind the iOS app's problem library.

Python Anthropic SDK YAML

Earlier work

04 · Skills

Tech stack

What I reach for, grouped by domain.

Languages
Java Python Dart Swift JavaScript SQL
Backend & data
Spring · Reactive Spring REST Kafka AMQ Hadoop Hibernate NoSQL
Cloud
GCP (BigQuery · BigTable · IAM · Compute) AWS
Mobile & frontend
Flutter SwiftUI Firebase React
Observability
SignalFx Splunk
AI / LLMs
Anthropic Claude Google Gemini OpenAI
Tools
Git IntelliJ Maven Jenkins Tableau Jupyter
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate Tableau Desktop Specialist
05 · Education

Education

M.S. Management Information Systems
State University of New York at Buffalo
Graduated June 2019
B.E. Electronics & Telecommunication
University of Mumbai
Graduated June 2013
06 · Contact

Let's talk

Open to interesting problems in identity, data platforms, or AI-native products. The inbox is always open.