Kaushik Barat is an engineering manager and former principal software engineering manager with around 15 years of experience building large-scale cloud-based distributed systems and consumer-to-enterprise products. He led and originally designed Microsoft's School Data Sync, creating a data platform that automates roster and identity synchronization for education customers at scale. Now at Common Room, he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver data-driven services and platform reliability. Kaushik’s background spans OS-level work, client applications, and cloud services, giving him a rare end-to-end systems perspective. Based in Redmond, he pairs a University of Washington computer science master’s with deep production experience, often translating complex organizational data needs into pragmatic, automatable solutions. Colleagues know him for tackling hard integration problems and shipping the first viable versions that evolve into platform-grade services.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Washington
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Bachelors, Computer engineering, Bachelors, Computer engineering at University of Mumbai
Holy Family High School
B E, Computer Engineering, B E, Computer Engineering at Sardar Patel University
Contributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
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