Sandip Sahani

I have over a decade of experience designing and building mission-critical Identity & Access Management (IAM) systems at Apple, where I currently serve as a Staff Software Engineer. I specialize in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and microservices, with deep expertise in Kafka, XACML-based policy engines, and high-availability active-passive failover automation.

My work spans architecting access-request processing pipelines from scratch using Kafka choreography, centralizing business rules through REST-driven policy services, and building self-healing infrastructure that eliminates manual intervention during planned maintenance and disaster recovery. Alongside my core engineering work, I lead and mentor a team of 1–3 engineers, and I've introduced Gen AI tooling to automate end-to-end project workflows — from design and planning through implementation and testing — improving overall team delivery velocity.

I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu University, where I graduated with the Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal for highest CGPA. My graduate research on GPU-accelerated feature tracking was published in IEEE.