Kaustubh Sinkar
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Berlin, United States
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Top SchoolKaustubh Sinkar is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, market-facing systems across finance, telecom, and cloud at companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs and Qualcomm. He combines deep research pedigree—4 patents and 15+ international publications—with hands-on delivery of low-latency messaging, LTE stack optimization, and trading connectivity engines. At Amazon he continues to drive large-scale engineering while contributing to notable open-source tooling, including enhancements to the widely used Emacs Prelude distribution. Comfortable straddling research and production, he brings a track record of turning protocol- and performance-heavy problems into robust, maintainable systems. Based in Berlin, he pairs a top-tier CS masters from NYU with practical engineering leadership in regulated and real-time domains.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at New York University - Polytechnic School of EngineeringBachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (12)
emacs10
org-mode10
emacs-lisp10
irc9
literate-programming8
windows6
css6
winapi6
reload6
spring-cloud-feign6
client-certificate6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bbatsov/prelude
May 2016 - Oct 2022
Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaustubh primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the Emacs Prelude distribution. Their work included modularizing the `prelude-erc` module, introducing new features like custom IRC autojoining and user-configurable quit messages, and enabling the creation of new perspectives for IRC. Furthermore, the user modified the file storage location to support system-wide installations and added basic support for literate programming by incorporating `prelude-literate-programming.el`. Finally, the user enabled cleaner org-habits within the Emacs configuration.
emacspreludeemacs-lspmelpaemacs-lisp
ksinkar/bash-git-prompt
Jun 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 2 months
bash-promptinformativebashpromptshell
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