Kirti Thorat
Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead at Stack Overflow
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKirti Thorat is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 12 years of experience building full-stack, data-intensive web applications across e-commerce and banking domains, now leading a sub-team on Stack Overflow for Teams in New York. She combines strong object-oriented design and lifecycle discipline with hands-on work in SPA front-ends, APIs, and performance-tuned backends, having shipped features at Stack Overflow after earlier roles in large-scale financial systems and retail Big Data analysis. Kirti pairs pragmatic engineering (TDD/BDD, CI, cross-browser testing) with mentoring and product-focused collaboration, and has led modules handling high-volume transactional data and ETL processes. Recently upskilled with an Executive Certificate in AI from Columbia, she’s passionate about ML/NLP and aims to apply Big Data analysis to AI problems. Outside work she contributes to open source and technical Q&A, and enjoys travel, food, and following TechCrunch and Hacker News—signaling a continuous appetite for new technologies and industry trends.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education Certificate Artificial Intelligence(AI), Executive Education Certificate Artificial Intelligence(AI) at Columbia EngineeringMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Stackoverflow
52,798reputation
2.5mreached
792answers
13questions
rubygems
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Github Skills (43)
carrierwave10
rails-migrations10
date-format10
cropperjs10
ruby10
foreign-keys10
ruby-on-rails10
image9
rubygems9
dropdown-menu9
controller9
bigcommerce9
twitter-bootstrap9
ajax9
json9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kirtithorat/pinteresting
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 7 months
kirtithorat/carrierwave-crop
Apr 2014 - Jul 2014
Carrierwave extension to crop uploaded images using Jcrop plugin with preview.
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 3 months
carrierwavecropperjscrop
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