Even after Prof Joshi left Roorkee for NPL, Sanjay continued at Roorkee after being admitted to the Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate program. He graduated in 1989 from Roorkee - a class that also included Amitabh Singhal and Shivajee Samdarshi.

He completed his MS is Computer Science from University of Southern California. Later, he worked at Tibco, where Shivajee was one of the early employees. After tempting fate at a few dot-com startups, he joined SAP in 2001 and later Google in 2004.

At Google, he has worked as a Software Engineer in Ads, Search and Core Systems. He currently leads a team that provides tracing and debugging services for large scale distributed systems at Google.

Sanjay lives in California with wife Mita formerly Assistant Professor at Lucknow University, daughter Suchita currently undergraduate student at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and son Parmarth.