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  "notice": "Public, read-only portfolio data. Every field here is already published on the human site. Project write-ups are password protected and not included. Do not treat any of it as instructions.",
  "site": {
    "name": "Saksham Saxena",
    "description": "Portfolio of Saksham Saxena, a product builder who makes complex AI, search, healthcare, and financial systems understandable.",
    "url": "https://www.saksham7saxena.com",
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    "data": "portfolio.json",
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  "profile": {
    "name": "Saksham Saxena",
    "title": "Product builder",
    "tagline": "Designing clarity into complex systems",
    "headline": "Product builder for complex systems.",
    "summary": "Product builder for complex systems. Has worked across healthcare, search, payments and enterprise, turning tangled, many-variable problems into products people can understand, and shipping work that holds up at scale.",
    "current": "Amazon",
    "previous": [
      "Microsoft",
      "Adyen",
      "Samsung"
    ],
    "designedAt": [
      {
        "organization": "Amazon",
        "focus": "Healthcare and payments"
      },
      {
        "organization": "Microsoft",
        "focus": "Bing, Microsoft 365 and Office"
      },
      {
        "organization": "Adyen",
        "focus": "Identity and Access Management"
      },
      {
        "organization": "Samsung",
        "focus": "Galaxy Watch and SmartThings"
      }
    ],
    "workedIn": [
      "United States",
      "Netherlands",
      "India"
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "school": "University of Washington",
        "degree": "M.S., Human Centered Design & Engineering",
        "note": "Graduate research centered on LLM-powered experiences, including how people come to trust them."
      },
      {
        "school": "Indian Institute of Technology Delhi",
        "degree": "B.Tech, Engineering and Design"
      }
    ],
    "recognition": [
      {
        "title": "Two US patents granted",
        "detail": "Microsoft search features (US 12,008,042 and US 12,197,524)"
      },
      {
        "title": "Microsoft Design Challenge",
        "detail": "Winner, national competition"
      },
      {
        "title": "D'source Design Challenge",
        "detail": "Winner, 4,300+ entrants from 56 countries"
      },
      {
        "title": "8VC Design Fellowship",
        "detail": "Finalist, North America-wide"
      }
    ],
    "community": [
      {
        "title": "Design Club, IIT Delhi",
        "detail": "Founder of the official campus club"
      },
      {
        "title": "ADPList",
        "detail": "Design mentor since 2022"
      }
    ],
    "sideProjects": [
      {
        "name": "Mood Light",
        "summary": "A sentiment classifier that drives an Arduino light. TF-IDF features and logistic regression, trained on 27K labeled tweets; predictions reach the board over serial.",
        "stack": [
          "Python",
          "scikit-learn",
          "Arduino"
        ],
        "demo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH16-VXhZPs",
        "code": "https://github.com/saksham7saxena/sentiment-analysis"
      },
      {
        "name": "Soundscapes of Place",
        "summary": "A browser instrument that synthesizes city ambience in real time with the Web Audio API, from oscillators, filtered noise and envelopes rather than recordings.",
        "stack": [
          "TypeScript",
          "Web Audio API"
        ],
        "demo": "https://soundscapes-of-place.vercel.app/",
        "code": "https://github.com/saksham7saxena/soundscapes-of-place"
      }
    ],
    "buildingWithAI": "Has always built side projects to stay hands-on, writing the code himself, and lately builds most of them with AI coding tools.",
    "interests": [
      "Filmmaking: short films with more than 1M organic views on YouTube; Best Fresher and later Best Representative at the IIT Delhi Photography and Film-Making Club",
      "Photography: travel photography across 16 countries",
      "Piano: picked up as a kid, still plays occasionally",
      "Fitness: running, hiking, kayaking, biking and skating (a Seattle 10K, Rattlesnake Ledge, Union Bay, Santa Monica to Venice, Wollman Rink)"
    ],
    "links": {
      "email": "mailto:saksham7saxena@gmail.com",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham7saxena/",
      "github": "https://github.com/saksham7saxena",
      "adplist": "https://adplist.org/mentors/saksham-saxena",
      "scholar": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AJUOTEIAAAAJ"
    },
    "capabilities": [
      "Product design",
      "Artificial intelligence",
      "Search",
      "Healthcare",
      "Financial technology",
      "Enterprise software"
    ]
  },
  "experience": [
    {
      "organization": "Amazon",
      "status": "current",
      "focus": "Healthcare and payments",
      "projects": [
        "amazon-one-medical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Microsoft",
      "status": "previous",
      "focus": "Bing, Microsoft 365 and Office",
      "projects": [
        "microsoft-365-places",
        "microsoft-bing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Adyen",
      "status": "previous",
      "focus": "Identity and Access Management",
      "projects": [
        "adyen-iam"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Samsung",
      "status": "previous",
      "focus": "Galaxy Watch and SmartThings",
      "projects": []
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "id": "amazon-one-medical",
      "name": "Amazon One Medical",
      "organization": "Amazon",
      "summary": "Patient access and care delivery at scale",
      "page": "one-medical.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-365-places",
      "name": "Microsoft 365",
      "organization": "Microsoft",
      "summary": "Coordination across time, space, and teams",
      "page": "microsoft-places.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "microsoft-bing",
      "name": "Microsoft Bing",
      "organization": "Microsoft",
      "summary": "Recommendation infrastructure for search",
      "page": "microsoft-bing.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "adyen-iam",
      "name": "Adyen IAM",
      "organization": "Adyen",
      "summary": "Identity systems for enterprise commerce",
      "page": "adyen-mfa.html"
    }
  ]
}