Abhishek Sagar
Phone - +91-961******* Email - adbbya@r.postjobfree.com
GitHub - https://github.com/absagar
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-sagar-78164721
Experience
Principal Architect, ICICI Innovation Lab (May 2018 - current) :
●Implemented a generic Work Management Service, UPI Switch, Revenue Management Service and led a team of developers/designers to build a Corporate Lending Platform
●Leading Data Science/ML initiatives as well in the Lab. Built an Anti Money Laundering System and Retail/Corporate Loan Default Prediction System
CTO, Co-Founder of Testbook backed by Matrix Partners, Iron Capital (July 2014 - Feb 2018) :
●Architected and developed our scalable, high traffic backend in Golang (MongoDB/Redis) which consists of 7 major verticals and ~15 odd services
●Core API servers handle ~2000rps on a typical day serving 8M+ registered users and can automatically scale up to much more
●Consistently came up with new ideas and implemented them for the company and the product which helped us scale
●Built and led a team of ~20 engineers across Back-end, Mobile and Infrastructure
●Ideated and developed Testbook’s android app(8M+ installs and 4.6 rating) and Current Affairs app (9M+ installs and 4.5 rating)
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Adobe India (July 2012 - July 2014) :
●Adobe PDF Print Engine (July 2012 - Feb 2014)
Developed several key features in areas like JDF, Analytics, Trapping etc including adding Analytics module from scratch to the product
Promoted to Senior MTS in 6 months and received Spot Award for excellent performance in 2013
●Adobe Social, Digital Marketing (March 2014 - July 2014)
Implemented several features like gif support, internal analytics dashboard
Student Technical Coordinator, TnP Cell, IIT Delhi (July, 2010 - July, 2012) :
●Built and scaled the platform used for training and placement purposes in my college
●Awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution’ in 2012 and ‘Special Contribution’ in 2011
Education
Year Degree / Exam Institute GPA / Marks 2012 M.Tech & B.Tech, CS IIT Delhi 8.5
(Dual Degree)
2006 C.B.S.E. Delhi Public School, Bokaro 91.2
2004 C.B.S.E. Chapra Central School, Chapra 93
Degree Project
ParTejas: A Java based parallel architecture simulation framework:
●Key contributor to the development of Tejas, which is being used in IITD (and many other institutes worldwide) for teaching purposes.
●Parallelised Tejas to develop ParTejas, which showed 10x to 85x improvements in speed compared to the existing simulators within a 2-4% error of strictly sequential simulation.
●Publications:
ParTejas: A Parallel Simulator for Multicore Processors, 2014 at IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)
ParSim: A Parallel Simulator for Multicore Processors, 2017 at ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Academic Projects
Hacking IITD internet proxy login system (July, 2011 - Nov, 2011) :
●Successfully exploited a security vulnerability through XSS and a couple of other tricks to gain access to the user’s account
Hadoop like Distributed File System (July, 2011 - Dec, 2011) :
●Implemented a Distributed FileSystem with goals and design similar to Hadoop dfs
Scholastic Achievements
●AIR 244 in IIT-JEE 2007 and 99.9 percentile in GATE 2010
●NTSE Scholar awarded to top 500 students in India
●Recipient of various other scholarships like NEST scholarship 2012 awarded to top 10 people in India, Masters Research Scholarship for 2011-12 by MHRD, Govt. Of India etc.