Sanil Khurana

Sanil Khurana has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering. Sanil started their career at The Solar Labs in 2018, where they developed a Python program to calculate solar generation with a focus on performance optimization. In 2019, they continued their role as a software engineer at The Solar Labs until 2020. During this time, they focused on weather prediction, generation, interpolation, and data science.

In 2020, Sanil joined MedTrail as a software engineer and worked on building microfrontend iOS and Android apps using React Native, as well as web applications using React. Sanil also played a key role in creating and integrating REST and GraphQL APIs for accessing data models.

In 2021, Sanil moved to Censius AI as a software engineer, focusing on backend development. Sanil stayed with the company until 2022.

Currently, Sanil is working at Quizizz as a Software Engineer 2 in the Backend Platform team. Their responsibilities include building a gateway service to prevent DoS attacks and adding an authentication layer using Kong and Redis cluster. Sanil has successfully revamped the Elasticsearch infrastructure, reducing infrastructure costs by approximately 70% and increasing availability. Additionally, they have revamped the legacy Search service in Golang, achieving significant cost efficiency and processing twice the number of requests with the same hardware.

Sanil Khurana obtained a Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) degree with a focus on Java from the Vivekananda Institute Of Professional Studies, where they studied from 2016 to 2019. In addition to their formal education, they have acquired several certifications. These include the AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which they obtained in October 2021. Sanil also completed a course on Convolutional Neural Networks from deeplearning.ai in September 2019. Furthermore, in December 2018, they completed a course titled "The Complete Self-Driving Car Course - Applied Deep Learning" on Udemy. Prior to their degree program, they obtained certifications in Data Structures from UC San Diego in October 2017, and Algorithmic Toolbox from UC San Diego in August 2016.