Saksham
Garg

Grad CS @ UW–Madison

What I'm up to

Building

ML systems and full-stack software that scales across problem domains

Learning

Foundational AI Models + Distributed Systems at UW-Madison because one GPU is never enough

Exploring

Summer + Fall '26 SWE internships. Genuinely excited to contribute, learn and ship

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Projects

A selection of things I've built, from ML systems to UNIX shells.

Skills & Technologies

Tools and technologies I work with on a daily basis.

Languages

Core programming languages I write production code in

C/C++
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Java
SQL

Frontend

Building responsive, performant user interfaces

React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
HTML/CSS
Oracle JET

Backend & Data

Server-side architectures and data systems

REST
gRPC
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
Kafka

Big Data & ML

Distributed data processing and machine learning

Spark
Hadoop
PyTorch
Foundation Models
Hive

Cloud & DevOps

Infrastructure, deployment, and orchestration

AWS
GCP
Docker
Jenkins CI/CD
Linux/Unix

Developer Tools

Daily workflow and productivity tools

Git/GitHub
Vim
Bash/Zsh
Postman
Cursor
Claude Code

Experience

My professional journey and education.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aug 2025 - May 2027Madison, WI
  • Maintaining a 4.0 GPA while diving deep into Big Data Systems, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, and Foundation Models
  • Spending most of my time building projects that sit right at the intersection of distributed systems and applied AI
2026
MAR
Oracle

Applications Developer

Oracle

Jul 2023 - Aug 2025Hyderabad, India
  • Led the end-to-end development of 10+ MVVM pages in Oracle JET as part of a company-wide UI/UX migration for the ERP manufacturing suite, rolling out role-based access controls that brought 550+ enterprise customers onto the new platform
  • Wrote and optimized REST services and SQL queries in Java EE powering 10M+ daily transactions, managing to squeeze out roughly 20% faster API response times along the way
  • Integrated Oracle AI Agent Studio workflows directly into transactional pages so operators and engineers could get real-time, contextual AI recommendations while they worked
ACM-ICPC Asia-West Regionals

Regional Contestant

ACM-ICPC Asia-West Regionals

Sep 2022Amritapuri & Gwalior-Indore, India
  • Competed across both sites of the Asia-West ACM-ICPC Regionals at Amritapuri, Karnataka and Gwalior-Indore
  • Placed AIR 11 in the online preliminary round, which felt pretty incredible
Oracle

Software Engineering Intern

Oracle

May 2022 - Jul 2022Bangalore, India
  • Built a Python CLI tool using Cookiecutter that generated standardized Flask, Django, and FastAPI project scaffolds, helping 50+ internal developers skip the boilerplate and jump straight to building
  • Automated virtual environment setup and dependency installation, cutting onboarding time in half for new developers joining the team
  • Wired up PostgreSQL integration so teams could manage database connections with just a few lines of config
ACM-ICPC Asia-West Regionals

Regional Contestant

ACM-ICPC Asia-West Regionals

Aug 2021Online (Asia-West Region)
  • Made my first ACM-ICPC Regionals appearance as a sophomore, competing in the Asia-West regional contest and catching the competitive programming bug for good
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee

B.Tech in Electronics Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee

Jul 2019 - May 2023Uttarakhand, India
  • Graduated with a 3.86 GPA, taking coursework in OOP, Computer Architecture, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Computer Networks
  • Reached Codeforces Candidate Master (peak rating 1924) and placed 90th globally in Google Kick Start Round C 2022

Let's get in
touch.

I'm always open to interesting conversations and opportunities.