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about
~/about.mdHey, I'm Sanjae. I just wrapped up my CS degree at Wilfrid Laurier, and I build backend systems for a living. Outside of code, I'm happiest chasing something new: a country I haven't been to, a skill I'm bad at, anything a little past my comfort zone.
I've been lucky with the teams I've landed on. At Rippling, I built backend services for profile changes across HR and payroll for 20,000+ companies. At Activision, I worked on the Call of Duty store (that one, 100M+ players). At Nokia, I built internal data tooling. Now I'm a software engineer at Bloomberg.
When I'm not coding, you'll usually find me behind a camera. It's a completely different kind of problem-solving, and weirdly it's made me a better engineer. Turns out half this job is just composition in disguise.
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Software Engineer · Bloomberg
- building backend systems on the engineering team
Software Engineer Intern · Rippling
- built Python backend services for complex profile mutations & effective-dated state across HR / payroll / IT systems serving 20,000+ companies
- designed transaction-safe, versioned update logic that cut state-inconsistency bugs 35%; refactored REST APIs for -22% mutation latency
Software Engineer Intern · Activision Blizzard
- built on the Call of Duty commerce platform (purchases, bundles, trade-ins): 100M+ players, billions in annual revenue
- optimized DB access, caching & load distribution (SQLAlchemy · Redis · Kafka): +25% throughput, -15% latency, -20% failed orders
Data Engineer Intern · Nokia
- built the DLM, a Flask + PostgreSQL tool letting non-technical staff manage SQL Server records securely, cutting support tickets 80%
- built Python / SQL pipelines moving telemetry across systems: +30% reporting speed for analytics teams
Software Engineer Intern · Civiconnect
- built full-stack features for a hospital health app (React · Node · Supabase) with real-time patient sync + secure staff auth
- optimized REST APIs with async I/O & caching for +15% concurrency and faster clinical data access
projects
3 trackedParlancev1.0 · iOSshipped
An AI speech-coaching app for iOS, basically Duolingo for speaking. Get a prompt, record yourself, get AI feedback. Mode-specific coaching for interviews, pitches, and keynotes, with on-device audio analysis (pitch, energy, pace) and gamified streaks.
CueDropv0.9 · AIactive
An AI DJ assistant that autonomously selects and transitions tracks, learning from real DJ sets via a Neo4j knowledge graph. Live audio analysis, a 5-layer priority queue, and a guest-request flow over QR.
Claude Code Toolkitdev toolingactive
A portable Claude Code setup that turns the assistant into a team of specialists: 25 skills and 18 subagents for planning, review, debugging, and release, plus safety hooks, guardrails, and a one-shot bootstrap install.
atlas
21 cities · 10 countriesA map of everywhere I've traveled. Places I've visited, lived in, or currently call home.
// hover or tap a marker · ◎ home base · ● lived · ○ visited
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contact sheet · 43 framescontact
~/.config/reach-meBuilding something, or just want to talk shop? Ping me.