Kishan Gajera
Software Engineer at TikTok
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKishan Gajera is a Full-stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, user-focused web applications and services, currently contributing to TikTok from the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines a strong academic foundation—MS in Computer Science from USC and a BE in Computer Engineering—with hands-on roles across frontend and backend internships at ResearchLoupe and USC Marshall. Comfortable across the stack, Kishan has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production, emphasizing performance and user experience. Known for a steady improvement mindset—"better than yesterday"—he brings pragmatic iteration and measurable progress to fast-paced teams. His background in both research-adjacent environments and high-scale consumer product engineering gives him a balanced perspective on shipping features that matter.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Mumbai Bachelor of Engineering, University of Mumbai Bachelor of Engineering at St. Francis Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at USC Viterbi School of EngineeringJunior College Computer Science, Junior College Computer Science at Shri T P Bhatia Junior College of Science
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
javascript10
harvest10
laravel10
angular10
cli10
typescript10
nexus10
full-stack10
prisma10
jamstack10
tailwindcss10
documentation10
nextjs10
contentful10
angular-cli10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kgajera/javascript-examples
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Full source code examples to support KGajera.com blog posts
Contributions:11 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
postsblog-posts
kgajera/stripe-event-types
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
TypeScript typings for Stripe webhook events
Contributions:8 releases, 31 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
stripetypescriptstripe-webhook
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