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Sadaf A.

Amazon ML School’25 | Google Upskilling Launchpad’25 | GSoC’24 @Neutralinojs | Final Year CSE Student

New Delhi

1+ year of work experience

Google Summer of Code
May 20245 mosSep 2024

San Francisco Bay Area

◦ Increased test coverage for 6 native APIs by adding over 1,100 lines of code, ensuring robust functionality and reducing potential bugs. ◦ Contributed 15 commits across 5 pull requests, all successfully merged, demonstrating strong collaborative skills and adherence to project guidelines.
FunnelHQ
Feb 20243 mosApr 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

◦ Developed user data scripts and optimized infrastructure costs by utilizing EC2 Spot Instances, securing up to a 90% discount on compute resources. ◦ Optimized infrastructure costs by deploying PostgreSQL on EC2 Spot Instances ($0.0172 per hour) instead of RDS ($0.075 per hour), achieving a cost savings of over 77%.
Arakoo.ai
Nov 20233 mosJan 2024

Santa Clara, California, United States

◦ Migrated the codebase from NestJs to Hono.js, optimizing for WebAssembly (Wasm) compatibility, resulting in a performance increase of approximately 67%. ◦ Contributed over 40,000 lines of code, ranking among the top 6 contributors. ◦ Developed a npx command for automated example generation, resulting in users saving an average of 30 minutes per project setup.
Seequenze Technologies
Jan 202311 mosNov 2023

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

◦ Performed a 99.46% reduction in operational expenses by migrating from GitHub Actions ($7.68 per hour) to Jenkins hosted on AWS EC2 spot instance ($0.0416 per hour). ◦ Conducted Apache JMeter performance testing with up to 10,000 requests, identifying scalability improvements. ◦ Designed and implemented a microservice architecture using AWS SQS, processing up to 3000 messages per second efficiently through batching.

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Headline

Amazon ML School’25 | Google Upskilling Launchpad’25 | GSoC’24 @Neutralinojs | Final Year CSE Student

About

→ Backend developer with a passion for streamlining systems and saving costs where it counts. →Love solving C++ challenges on LeetCode—there's always a better way to get things done. →Experienced across multiple startups, delivering scalable, real-world solutions that make a difference. →Enthusiastic about cloud optimization and performance tweaks that boost efficiency. →A team player at heart, turning complex issues into simple, actionable solutions.

Location

New Delhi

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

hugging face

langchain

obsidian

Figma Make

Work experience

GSoC mentee @ Neutralinojs at Google Summer of Code, May 2024 - Sep 2024 · 5 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, ◦ Increased test coverage for 6 native APIs by adding over 1,100 lines of code, ensuring robust functionality and reducing potential bugs. ◦ Contributed 15 commits across 5 pull requests, all successfully merged, demonstrating strong collaborative skills and adherence to project guidelines.

Back End Developer Intern at FunnelHQ, Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◦ Developed user data scripts and optimized infrastructure costs by utilizing EC2 Spot Instances, securing up to a 90% discount on compute resources. ◦ Optimized infrastructure costs by deploying PostgreSQL on EC2 Spot Instances ($0.0172 per hour) instead of RDS ($0.075 per hour), achieving a cost savings of over 77%.

Back End Developer Intern at Arakoo.ai, Nov 2023 - Jan 2024 · 3 mos, Santa Clara, California, United States, ◦ Migrated the codebase from NestJs to Hono.js, optimizing for WebAssembly (Wasm) compatibility, resulting in a performance increase of approximately 67%. ◦ Contributed over 40,000 lines of code, ranking among the top 6 contributors. ◦ Developed a npx command for automated example generation, resulting in users saving an average of 30 minutes per project setup.

Back End Developer Intern at Seequenze Technologies, Jan 2023 - Nov 2023 · 11 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, ◦ Performed a 99.46% reduction in operational expenses by migrating from GitHub Actions ($7.68 per hour) to Jenkins hosted on AWS EC2 spot instance ($0.0416 per hour). ◦ Conducted Apache JMeter performance testing with up to 10,000 requests, identifying scalability improvements. ◦ Designed and implemented a microservice architecture using AWS SQS, processing up to 3000 messages per second efficiently through batching.

Public links

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/sadaf04

github: https://github.com/Sadaf-A

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