Kaustav Ghosh
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolKaustav Ghosh is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications, developer-experience tooling, and cloud-native services, now focused on delivering platform and automation capabilities for consumer devices at Netflix. He played a central role at AWS Amplify—helping launch the Amplify CLI, integrating it with the GraphQL transformer and Console, and leading delivery of the Amplify Admin Service showcased at re:Invent 2020. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks (React, Node, cloud infra and performant APIs), he also improves developer workflows and documentation to boost adoption and UX. Kaustav has hands-on experience scaling teams and initiatives, having grown the Amplify toolchain team rapidly while transitioning between IC and leadership roles. He brings a rare combination of product-minded engineering and operational rigor, proven by production launches for global AWS services and device-focused automation at Netflix. Based in the greater Seattle area, he contributes to notable open-source projects, including meaningful additions to the widely used aws-amplify/amplify-cli.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHSC, HSC at Sathaye Junior CollegeICSE, Computer Applications, 93.7%, ICSE, Computer Applications, 93.7% at Lokhandwala Foundation SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.0 / 4, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.0 / 4 at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
wpgraphql10
aws-cloudformation10
wordpress-graphql10
aws-amplify10
graphql10
html9
documentation8
aws-s37
css7
amazon-s37
dynamodb7
api-gateway7
amazon-dynamodb7
amazon-cognito7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
May 2018 - Nov 2021
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:296 reviews, 926 commits, 740 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaustav contributed to the Amplify CLI toolchain, focusing on features related to the creation of new custom resources using GraphQL. They were instrumental in building the initial codebase of the Amplify CLI and integrating the framework with the GraphQL transformer. The user also worked on adding support for specific Amplify features such as Cognito, S3, API Gateway, and hosting. They are responsible for adding the new cloudformation stacks for lex bots and fixing the issues with them, they also included several other functionalities for the newly added resources.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
aws-amplify/docs
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
AWS Amplify Framework Documentation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 108 commits, 156 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaustav primarily focused on improving the user experience and navigation within the documentation. They updated the JavaScript code (`scripts.js`) to handle URL parameters and redirects, particularly for the `/cli/migrate` page. They also modified the default layout (`default.html`) to remove JavaScript framework options and restructure CLI documentation sections. Additionally, the user made changes to the `update-document-head.ts` file, updating meta tags to enhance SEO.
amplify-frameworkaws-lambdaserverlessaws-amplifygraphql
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