Kanishtha Surana
Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKanishtha Surana is a backend software engineer with about nine years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems using Java and C++, currently contributing to Walmart Global Tech from New York. She has shipped robust production services across Adobe, Compass, PhonePe, and Walmart, including Kafka-backed pipelines, an ads management platform handling 60K RPS, and a Twilio-based texting service built from scratch. Her expertise spans system design, streaming (Kafka, Druid), databases (Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS), enabling measurable performance gains such as a 3x throughput improvement on a key Adobe service. An IIIT-Hyderabad MTech graduate, she pairs strong academic foundations with practical experience delivering observability, CI/CD, and scalable APIs for high‑volume consumer platforms. Despite being on an L2 visa, she is actively open to opportunities and brings a track record of solving operational challenges in both US and India-scale products.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Jaypee University of Information TechnologyMaster of Technology - MTech Computer Software Engineering, Master of Technology - MTech Computer Software Engineering at IIIT Hyderabad
Github Skills (5)
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Github contributions (5)
kanishtha/Linux_shell
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
biubiutang/LARA-1
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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