Krithika Vijayakumar is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building full-stack, distributed systems and data-driven applications. Currently at Intuit, she progressed from senior engineer to staff roles, driving scalable solutions across cloud-native architectures and product-focused teams. Her open-source contributions include improving the Numaflow UI and backend metrics for a Kubernetes-native streaming platform, reflecting a comfort with both frontend UX and backend observability. Earlier roles across GE Digital, Autodesk, and Cerner show a steady track record of shipping production software in enterprise and healthcare domains. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and pairs rigorous academic training with practical experience in large-codebase evolution and cross-functional collaboration. A detail-oriented engineer, she often bridges UX improvements with backend telemetry to deliver measurably better developer and user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S Computer Science at University of Illinois System
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
Kubernetes-native platform to run massively parallel data/streaming jobs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:43 reviews, 37 commits, 30 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Krithika primarily contributed to the Numaflow UI, implementing new features, and making improvements. They worked on the UI codebase, adding a UI directory, an icon, and integrating watermark features. Their changes included modifying React components and the overall application structure, fixing warnings, and improving the front-end user experience. The user also made supporting changes to the backend, including adding processing rate metrics, and changes to the daemon service.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
reacttest-app
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