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Saksham Mehla

Evaluator · DISC type scd
Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
📍 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Saksham is a software engineer building Breezy, a platform to make LLM fine-tuning accessible and affordable for Indian startups. His background is in network security at Palo Alto Networks, with skills in multi-cloud orchestration and AI infrastructure. He is a graduate of IIIT Delhi.

Outside of his entrepreneurial venture, Saksham has a keen interest in applying machine learning to diverse fields, having developed a model to classify exoplanets. He was also his universitys Football Coordinator, demonstrating leadership and a passion for sports.

He recently published GPU benchmarks showing an Indian cloud provider was 44% cheaper than AWS.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Software Engineer
Location
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Personality Overview

How Saksham shows up

Hard To Convince
Fast But Analytical
Quality Focused

They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service

Priorities

Topics Saksham cares about

LLM Fine-Tuning
Currently building Breezy, a one-click platform focused on making LLM fine-tuning and inference simple and affordable for startups in India.
AI Infrastructure Costs
Actively researches and benchmarks cloud providers, with a goal of reducing operational costs for companies building AI products.
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Career

Work history

8-2023 - 9-2025
Software Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
10-2022 - 10-2022
Astro Hack Week 2022
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
7-2022 - 5-2023
Sports Coordinator - Football
IIITD Sports Council
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Education
2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Steadiness (S)

Steadiness (S) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to focus on cooperation, support and taking everyone along. Those scoring high tend to be consistent and calm.

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