Kush Sharma
Staff Software Engineer at Raystack Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKush Sharma is a Staff Software Engineer and system architect with 11 years of experience designing high-performance, highly available distributed systems from startups to hyperscale companies. Currently building a log-structured file system for Google Persistent Storage, he has previously led teams at Amazon to optimize pricing and built a next-generation payroll and tax engine at Rippling. As a founding member of Raystack Foundation and founder of a high-traffic novel indexing platform, he blends open-source product thinking with hands-on engineering and operational experience across ETL, consensus protocols, and cloud-native deployments. His background spans low-level storage, data lineage and quality pipelines, and real-time workflow orchestration, often leveraging technologies like Raft, gRPC, Apache Beam, and Kubernetes. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a pragmatic, performance-first mindset with a knack for shipping resilient systems that solve both developer and business needs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, MesraBachelor of Computer Application Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application Computer Science at Jaipur National University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (200)
proxy10
automation10
optimus10
3d10
schema10
dataops10
scheduler10
api10
json10
schema-validation10
bigquery10
data-integrity10
data-science10
apache10
data-platform10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
raystack/transformers
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
This repository is home to the Optimus data transformation plugins for various data processing needs.
Contributions:45 releases, 11 reviews, 13 commits in 7 months
transformationdata-processingoptimuspluginsjava
kushsharma/resume
Jun 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
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