Rasika Pohankar
Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRasika Pohankar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems and real-time data platforms, currently at Meta in Menlo Park. She combines full-stack development skills—Java, JavaScript, Perl, and modern front-end templating—with backend integrations and performance optimization, having reduced analytics runtimes from a day to minutes at a previous employer. An active open-source contributor to DuckDuckGo’s Instant Answers, she has implemented both UI features and backend parsers, including work on widely used repositories like zeroclickinfo-spice and fathead. Her background spans high-throughput streaming with Spark/Kafka and enterprise integrations for complex programs like F-35, and she holds an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Colleagues know her for pragmatic refactors, careful regex and data-handling improvements, and a knack for turning messy data into reliable, user-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyHSC, Science, HSC, Science at HPT Arts and RYK Science CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (13)
css10
momentjs10
instant-view10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
perl10
handlebars10
instantsearch10
yaml10
questions-and-answers9
regex9
ruby4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 21 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rasika primarily worked on the implementation of a countdown timer feature within the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. Their contributions involved adding JavaScript code using moment.js to calculate and display time differences, along with incorporating CSS and Handlebars for UI presentation. The user also refactored the code, changing the display and functionality to account for days, hours, and minutes, and implemented an alarm sound at the end of the countdown.
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duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 8 PRs, 73 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rasika contributed extensively to the `zeroclickinfo-spice` repository, implementing and refining a "Can I Use" instant answer feature, demonstrating a strong focus on front-end and potentially back-end integration. Their work included creating JavaScript code for the new feature, along with related Handlebars templates and CSS styling. The user also made changes to the IsItUp.pm Perl file, indicating familiarity with the back-end spice implementation and domain validation.
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