Kaushik Tandon
Software Engineer at YouTube
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Tandon is a software engineer at YouTube with eight years of experience building personalized recommendation and tab-ranking systems for TV apps. A USC CECS graduate (Class of 2021), he brings production C++ backend expertise honed through multiple Google internships and work on large-scale data and ML-driven projects. His background spans knowledge-graph construction, robotics research, and data-product experimentation, demonstrating comfort across systems, data pipelines, and user-facing ranking signals. Kaushik has a track record of implementing validation frameworks and large-data ETL pipelines—work that enabled a million-node knowledge graph for NASA data—and enjoys turning complex datasets into reliable, testable infrastructure. Based in Saratoga, CA, he combines rigorous engineering with teaching experience from leading USC labs, making him effective at both building systems and mentoring others.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMonta Vista High School
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaushiktandon/Brane
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:51 pushes in 1 year 8 months
kaushiktandon/Website
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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