Summary
Kasthuri Menon is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 4 years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript systems using React, Node.js/Express, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka, and containerized deployments. At Capital One and prior startups, she has architected real-time data tooling—most notably a cross-platform Kafka monitoring app built with Electron, D3, and KafkaJS—that emphasizes low-latency streaming, observability, and reusable UI patterns. She pairs pragmatic backend design (event-loop optimized Node servers, PostgreSQL/SQLite schemas) with modern frontend engineering (React hooks, Flux patterns, SPA routing) and strong test/CI practices. An active open-source contributor and conference speaker on cloud strategies and AWS, she blends developer tooling advocacy with production-grade system design. Uncommonly, her background includes both project coordination and hands-on implementation, so she navigates technical tradeoffs with an eye for delivery and team enablement.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at SRM University
English, Hindi, Malayalam