Savitha Jayasankar
Staff Software Engineer at Niantic, Inc.
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSavitha Jayasankar is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, cost-efficient data and full-stack systems, currently driving engineering at Niantic in Bellevue. She has a strong track record in large-scale data pipelines—having scaled a MapReduce pipeline to process billions of records while cutting costs 10x—and brings hands-on expertise with cloud platforms and LTS client libraries through collaboration with Google. Her open-source contributions include significant refactors and Angular 8 migrations to translation and backend services in the well-known Oppia learning platform, showing a blend of front-end and backend fluency. Savitha’s background spans enterprise banking integrations, GPU and distributed file system work in academia, and practical identity migrations to Active Directory, highlighting both systems and operational depth. Comfortable moving between low-level infrastructure and user-facing features, she pairs rigorous CS training from RIT with a pragmatic focus on reliability and maintainability. Colleagues describe her as an engineer who turns complex, cross-team problems into robust, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Calicut
English, Malayalam
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
angular10
ed255198
angularjs8
webpages7
python7
testing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 5 commits, 14 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Savitha's commits primarily involve refactoring and migrating code within the "oppia/oppia" repository, focusing on upgrading the codebase to Angular 8. They made significant changes to translation-related services and components, including the `TranslationTabActiveModeService`, and implemented the migration of `EditableQuestionBackendApiService`, and `TopicUpdateService`. These changes also touched on frontend components and services.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
savithakj/oppia
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Contributions:72 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
quality-educationreactlearning-platformaccessiblejavascript
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