Swayam Sahu
About Swayam Sahu
Swayam Sahu is a Member of Technical Staff at ThoughtSpot, where he has led significant cloud cost reductions through innovative migration and optimization projects. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) and has experience in event organization and marketing.
Work at ThoughtSpot
Swayam Sahu has been a Member of Technical Staff at ThoughtSpot since 2022, contributing to the company's operations in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. During his tenure, he led a migration from AWS managed MSK to Confluent Kafka, resulting in a 10% reduction in cloud costs across the organization. Additionally, he designed and implemented a cost optimization feature that decreased cloud costs per tenant by 30% while improving user experience through automatic start/stop of clusters based on user activity.
Education and Expertise
Swayam Sahu earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, completing his studies from 2018 to 2022. His academic journey also includes studying at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, where he completed his CBSE X and XII education from 2011 to 2018. He has demonstrated expert-level proficiency on Codeforces, achieving a commendable rating of 1748.
Background
Prior to his role at ThoughtSpot, Swayam Sahu worked briefly as a Member of Technical Staff at Oracle in 2021 for two months. His early career included positions as a Marketing Executive at Technex, IIT (BHU) Varanasi from 2018 to 2020, and as an Event Organizer at PRASTUTI, IIT (BHU) Varanasi from 2018 to 2021. These roles contributed to his professional development and experience in technical and organizational settings.
Achievements
Swayam Sahu has achieved notable recognition in various fields. He secured a Silver Medal in Handball at Udgosh’19, an event held at IIT Kanpur. Additionally, he achieved first place in the Science Quiz competition at the Regional Science Congress. During his internship at Oracle India, he developed a user-friendly tool for thread dump analysis, which included creating a comprehensive call stack tree and algorithms to identify system deadlocks.