Kaushik Lakshmikanth
Senior Software Engineer at Highnote
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Lakshmikanth is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems, developer tooling, and infrastructure. He focuses on GraphQL as an API platform and frontend infrastructure, pairing pragmatic frontend work with backend and build-process improvements. At Highnote he drives production-grade tooling and developer experience, and his open-source contributions include modernizing Twitter’s twitter-text JavaScript packages to be standalone and easier to distribute. Trained with a Master’s from Ohio State and a strong CS foundation from RV College of Engineering, he brings research-minded rigor from earlier academic roles to product-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors that improve reliability and developer productivity behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.84 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.84 GPA at R. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
build-automation10
package-management9
nodejs9
angular-routing6
requirejs6
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/twitter-text
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Twitter Text Libraries. This code is used at Twitter to tokenize and parse text to meet the expectations for what can be used on the platform.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 25 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik primarily worked on building standalone JavaScript packages for the twitter-text library. Their contributions included modifications to the library's core functionalities. They also refactored the code to use substring instead of `startsWith` and published standalone versions of the lib. This demonstrates a focus on improving the library's build process and ensuring it is up-to-date and easily distributable.
emojiobjective-ctokenizeexpectationsruby
kaushlakers/punycode.js
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
A robust Punycode converter that fully complies to RFC 3492 and RFC 5891.
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
rfcpunycodeconverter
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