Ishaan Thakur
Senior Software Engineer at SoFi
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIshaan Thakur is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with eight years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently focused on Originations Core at SoFi. He has progressed through roles at SoFi from intern to senior engineer, contributing across lending growth and loans platform initiatives that power consumer finance products. His background blends practical systems engineering with research-caliber training from Cornell (M.Eng. and B.S. in ECE), and earlier internships at Berkeley Lab and Nokia Bell Labs exposed him to high-speed networking and robotics perception. Comfortable across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and performance optimization, he brings a pragmatic curiosity reflected in a GitHub profile described simply as “interested in everything.” Colleagues value him for translating complex distributed requirements into reliable, production-ready systems and iterating quickly on data-driven features. Based in Seattle, he pairs strong technical depth with a continual appetite for learning and cross-domain problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Hindi, English
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
declarative10
frontend10
react10
user-interface9
typescript9
serverless-functions8
openwhisk8
faas7
functions-as-a-service7
android7
apache7
docker7
serverless7
twitter-sentiment-analysis6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ishaanthakur/ishaanthakur.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
react
ishaanthakur/Twitter-Sentiment-Analysis
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Project on analyzing Twitter data and determining the sentiment of the opinion into positive, negative or neutral.
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
nlpanalyzingpythonopiniontwitter-sentiment-analysis
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