Saumitra Saha Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

StyleSeat is a two-sided marketplace for beauty services. StyleSeat's mission is to make personal style truly effortless. At StyleSeat I was the Scrum Master of a large team and shepherded five major projects-- all on time and within scope. One of the major things that I worked on was improving the performance of StyleSeat's implementation of Segment. I optimized StyleSeat's usage of Celery in Python for concurrency. This improved the performance of the whole application-- customers could get their MFA codes, booking confirmations, and appointment updates faster. For the whole organization, I led company wide meetings on improving the backend codebase and company culture. To overcome the constraints of remote work, I facilitated the creation of new avenues for junior engineers to get mentored. TechStack: Django/Python/Celery/React/SQL

San Francisco, California, Us

Bennu is a tool that helps employees track their accomplishments. Bennu's mission is to transform performance management into a lightweight, incremental cycle that enables employees to continuously grow. At Bennu, I improved the performance of the entire frontend, by improving the way each major page cached, fetched, updated server state. Tech Stack: Postgres/SQLAlchemy/Flask/ReactJS/React Query

Claymont, Delaware, Us

Attune's tools allow financial institutions to help their customers make sense of their finances. Attune's mission is to help visionary organizations optimize for the financial health of their stakeholders. One of the major things that I did for Attune was write all the documentation for the full code base-- frontend, backend and UX design. I feel a lot of information is lost if it is not well documented and enjoyable to read. I helped train a new team of engineers to take charge of the flagship product. Tech Stack: ReactJS/GCP/Firestore/NodeJS/Apache Beam

San Francisco, California, Us

Volley is the number one voice game company on Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Volley's mission is to make everyday life a little more entertaining. At Volley I redesigned the core AWS DynamoDB data model with 1.5 million users. I also created a speech recognition error reduction system for the game Song Quiz (the number one game on Alexa) leading to a smoother, error free user experience. Tech Stack: NodeJS/AWS DynamoDB/Javascript

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I taught recitation for a highly mathematical, difficult Game Theory course. I got students to understand math and economic concepts using fun abstractions to make the material memorable and meaningful. Student retention improved by up to a third compared to previous years. You can see some of my students' comments below.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

At the Federal Reserve, I conducted statistical research using the same statistical tools that underpin Machine Learning today. I had the honor to represent the Federal Reserve with Senior Foreign Central Bank Officials.

B.A., Mathematics (Computer Science Focused)

Computer Software Engineering

M.Sc., Economics

M.A., Economics