Saswath Menon

About Me

Software Development Engineer with a Bachelor’s in Software Engineering and 4+ years of experience ensuring high-quality software delivery. Proven expertise in designing, developing and deploying cloud-based applications. Skilled in building scalable backend services, RESTful APIs and interactive front-end interfaces. Experienced in working with CI/CD pipelines and performance monitoring tools. Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and system design. Adept at working in Agile/Scrum environments and committed to improving reliability and performance.

Skills

Programming & Scripting Languages: Java, Python, C++, Bash, JavScript, PHP
Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
Containerization Technologies: Docker
Frameworks: Spring Boot, Flask, JUnit, TestNG, Express
DevOps & CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, TeamCity, Maven, Git, Grafana
Cloud Platforms: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure
Frontend Technologies & Frameworks: HTML, CSS, React, Tailwind CSS
Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS, Windows
Other Tools: Node, Postman, Rest Assured, Selenium, Playwright, JIRA, GitHub, Bitbucket

Professional Experience

Software Developer 3 (Senior Member of Technical Staff) - Oracle

2021 - 2025

Worked on automation efforts for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within the MySQL development team, contributing to the growth of MySQL HeatWave (MySQLaaS)
Developed over 30 automated regression suites using JUnit and TestNG, ensuring accuracy of commercially released features
Designed comprehensive high and low level plans covering functional, non-functional and integration requirements for HeatWave features, ensuring a 100% availability and reliability rate
Executed post-deployment jobs in Jenkins and monitored them using Grafana, helping identify over 50 problematic code changes before production and tracking the remediation using JIRA
Built and automated workflows to communicate with REST API endpoints using Postman and custom Python scripts to streamline processes and reduce manual efforts by 30%
Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment, participating in stand-ups, code reviews and peer reviews to deliver features incrementally with less than 1% defect rate
Leveraged Terraform based test environment to dynamically configure and trigger automated regression tests by updating infrastructure code, thereby ensuring targeted test execution, reliable environment provisioning and controlled rollbacks post-execution
Monitored and resolved over 100 operational issues (Sev-2&3) in production environments

Projects

Full Stack E-Commerce Application (Nile)

A dockerized full stack e-commerce platform featuring user authentication, product management, shopping cart and order processing. It also includes a fully automated test suite covering unit and integration cases, as well as the API layers. Link to repository

Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security with JWT Authentication, MySQL, Maven
Frontend: React, React Router, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Axios
Tests: JUnit 5, Mockito, MockMvc, JaCoCo

Automated Test Framework for Nile

A standalone automated framework for the Nile platform which validates end to end workflows over HTTP across security, smoke and regression suites. Cases covered include authentication flows, JWT boundary conditions and RBAC enforcement. These tests run in a CI pipeline which automatically provisions a docker environment, waits for the stack to be healthy and generates reports. Link to repository

Stack: Java, TestNG, Rest Assured, Maven
CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Formula 1 Companion Website

A MERN based web application which aims to provide information about all circuits where races are scheduled in a particular season, details about all race weekends, including sessions and scheduled session times, as well as the current season's driver and constructor standings. The raw data was first sourced from jolpi.ca F1 API and various Formula 1 related Wikipedia pages, cleaned and refactored to fit the use cases of this site. Link to repository

Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS
Backend: Node, Express, MongoDB
Deployment: Render, Vercel, MongoDB Atlas

Health Tracker

A small Python based application built using Flask framework which stores basic health metrics such as exercise, meditation and sleep times in a database and visualizes that data with the help of Chart.js - an open source data visualization library. Link to repository

Stack: Python, Flask, HTML, Bootstrap CSS, SQLAlchemy

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Software Engineering

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai

2017 - 2021

CGPA: 8.2

Percentage: 85.11

Certifications

Google Cloud Digital Leader

Issued by: Google
Issued on: 11th March, 2026
Valid till: 11th March, 2029

Publications

Secure File Storage Using Cryptography and Steganography

Published by IEI, Chandigarh (2021)

Non-technical Skills

Avid graphic designing enthusiast with knowledge of Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Canva
Hands on experience with video editing tools like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premier Pro
Languages known include Malayalam, Bengali, Hindi, English and Tamil, along with Mandarin which was taught as an elective course

Other Positions Held

Data Analyst Intern - Takenmind

Analyzed corporate employee datasets to calculate attrition rates and predict future trends
Created visualizations using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib) including heatmaps, box plots, and trend lines
Extracted, transformed, and presented data using Jupyter for business insights

Digital Marketing Intern - Trell

Boosted brand visibility by 40% through cross-platform campaigns

Content Writer - AmplifyWorks

Enhanced SEO by 60% for airline promotional content