Summary
Binam Kayastha is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack and platform systems. He has shipped high-throughput Python services, React frontends, and Kafka-backed microservices across ad tech, e‑commerce, and subscription platforms, and has repeatedly improved observability and deployment stability. Notable wins include engineering an Ad Server/ETL that processed hundreds of GBs per day, a multiprocessing load test hitting 200k RPM, and reducing issue detection from hours to minutes via Prometheus/Grafana. He mentors junior engineers, leads architecture discussions, and builds developer tooling—creating local dev environments that cut testing cycles from 20 minutes to one. Outside work he tinkers with linux home servers and productivity apps, bringing a hands-on, systems-first mindset to product problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
IB Baccalaureate, IB Baccalaureate at Kyiv International School
English, Nepali, Russian