Hi, I'm Sahil Gandhi. I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for designing and optimizing complex backend infrastructure. Currently, I am a Staff Software Engineer at Sierra building the foundational platform for generative AI voice services. I was previously at Confluent working on their Fleet Management and Compute Platform teams.
Innovative solutions designed and patented during my work on cloud-native streaming and distributed infrastructure.
Methods and systems for container deployment across isolated zones to guarantee high-availability, fault domain separation, and minimal traffic hop overhead.
A framework that guarantees consistent rollout velocity, safety degradation checks, and automated rollback strategies within bounded time-windows across cloud fleets.
Automated strategies for executing rolling version upgrades of stateful engines in distributed topologies while preserving partition consensus and service SLA.
Exploring the intersection of scalable data engines, stream reasoning, and database internals.
A selection of independent builds ranging from automated trading systems to hardware robots and Chrome extensions.
An automated stock trading bot integrated with Alpaca API implementing custom quantitative trading strategies and backtesting pipelines.
A Chrome extension that turns standard HTTP error codes from various sites into fun Star Wars prequel memes instead.
An autonomous maze-solving robot designed from scratch (custom PCB, components, soldering) and programmed in C/C++. Won 1st at CAMM & UCR Regionals.
An automated Python-based assistant designed to parse and suggest answers for live mobile trivia apps like HQ Trivia and Beat the Q in real time.
A real-time classifier that grades basketball free throws using Hexiwear wearables mounted on a player's arm streaming data to a central Raspberry Pi server.
A backend API that scrapes UCLA dining hall data, allowing third-party developers to access nutritional info. Equipped with an interactive GUI.
"Communicating Across Random Masses"—a Chrome extension allowing users on any website to dynamically chat with each other anonymously and instantly.