Kaushik Basu
Senior Software Engineer at Mapbox
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKaushik Basu is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building telecom-grade and cloud-native systems, now contributing to Mapbox's Navigation Guidance team from Karlsruhe. He has deep C/C++ expertise across signaling and media domains (SIGTRAN, SIP, WebRTC, SRVCC) and a track record delivering backend microservices and high-availability controllers for operators and enterprises. His recent work at Twilio IoT expanded into AWS, Terraform and observability (Datadog, Elasticsearch), blending low-level protocol knowledge with cloud tooling. Kaushik is an active open-source contributor on practical tooling—from terminal screensavers and audio visualizers to front-end utilities—demonstrating attention to usability and robustness. Colleagues rely on him to own complex features end-to-end, design resilient interfaces, and mentor teams while navigating both embedded and distributed system challenges.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (MTech) Computer Science, Master of Technology (MTech) Computer Science at University of Calcutta
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
jquery10
css10
command-line-interface10
linux10
bash10
c1110
c1710
command-line10
cli10
scripting9
ncurses9
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pipeseroni/pipes.sh
Feb 2013 - Apr 2018
Animated pipes terminal screensaver
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 109 commits, 38 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik significantly enhanced the animated pipes terminal screensaver by adding new features and improving existing functionality. They implemented options for multi-pipes, random starting points, no color, and different pipe styles, expanding the user's customization capabilities. The user also simplified arithmetic evaluations and fixed a bug related to character limits, improving the script's overall quality and usability. Furthermore, the user added a Makefile, contributing to the project's installation.
pipesanimatedscreensaverbashterminal
jquery-textfill/jquery-textfill
Jan 2012 - Oct 2013
Resizes font-size of text to fit into container
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik primarily contributed to the front-end aspect of the project. They fixed image paths and renamed a plugin file. Further contributions involved cosmetic changes like formatting to 2 spaces, updating links, and the addition of an option to set width-only sizing. The user also added an option to set explicit height and width.
resizesfont-sizefontjquery-uifit
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