Summary
Kaushik Ravikumar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend services for Microsoft Stream in New York after earning a CS degree from Cornell. He has a broad hands-on background spanning mobile and web apps, data science, developer relations, and cloud/backend systems, and has shipped production features from mobile apps at Cornell to large-scale services at Microsoft. Kaushik is motivated by technology that improves quality of life and has a track record of applying engineering to social issues—co-founding a nonprofit that built a school in Kenya and organizing high-impact fundraising events. Comfortable learning new stacks quickly, he has also driven developer-facing work at PubNub and product recommendation tooling at BuzzFeed, blending user-focused product thinking with reliable engineering. Outside work he channels creativity through travel, music, and fitness, reflecting a pragmatic yet human-centered approach to building software.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science Engineering at Cornell University
Lynbrook High School
English, Spanish, Tamil