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Saksham Alok

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Saksham Alok is a software developer based in Bangalore, India, known for building full-stack web systems, shipping AI productivity tooling, and modernizing legacy products. His work spans frontend architecture, backend reliability, and developer experience improvements across enterprise and startup environments.

Early life and education

Saksham completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at PES University (2021-2025), where he focused on software engineering fundamentals, product thinking, and practical systems building. [1]

Career

Software Engineering Analyst, Nasdaq (Jun 2024 - Present)

  • Led AI adoption initiatives and engineered an AI Boardbook proof-of-concept for developer workflows.[2]
  • Built productivity agents including JiraScoper, QA Agent, and SUP Agent to automate repetitive engineering tasks.[3]
  • Implemented advanced search and navigation modules with React and Redux for mobile roadmap priorities.[4]
  • Converted undocumented legacy knowledge into structured documentation to speed up team onboarding.[5]
  • Migrated BoardVantage from Angular to React and improved test coverage from 2.81% to 32.7%.[6]
  • Built a RAG chat-with-PDF prototype using Spring Boot and Azure OpenAI.[7]

Full Stack Developer, Assertify (May 2023 - Jul 2023)

  • Migrated backend services from Spring Boot to Express.js for improved velocity and maintainability.[8]
  • Engineered 45+ CRUD endpoints using MySQL and Sequelize ORM.[9]
  • Deployed and managed backend infrastructure on AWS, focusing on reliability and scalability.[10]
  • Developed a conversion-oriented landing experience with React and Tailwind CSS.[11]

Selected projects

ReWire: Resale website for used electronics parts

Built a marketplace platform where users can buy and sell used electronic parts, with secure authentication, search and filtering, and product listing management. The stack included Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and serverless functions for scalable request handling.[12]

Technical stack

Frontend

React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux

Backend

Node.js, Express.js, SQL, Nginx

Other tools

Prisma, MongoDB, tRPC, TypeScript, Git

Talks and leadership

Delivered internal technical sessions on GitHub Copilot and custom agent workflows, helping teams improve engineering productivity and AI-assisted development practices.[13]

Timeline

    References

    1. Resume, Education section. ↩
    2. Resume, Nasdaq role summary. ↩
    3. Resume, AI productivity agents. ↩
    4. Resume, mobile architecture notes. ↩
    5. Resume, documentation and onboarding. ↩
    6. Resume, Angular to React migration and test coverage. ↩
    7. Resume, RAG chat-with-PDF implementation. ↩
    8. Resume, backend migration at Assertify. ↩
    9. Resume, Express endpoint development and ORM usage. ↩
    10. Resume, AWS backend operations. ↩
    11. Resume, React + Tailwind landing page development. ↩
    12. Resume, ReWire project details. ↩
    13. Resume, technical communication and sessions. ↩