Summary
Shiven Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience building consumer-facing products, currently contributing to Instagram's engineering org. A UIUC Honors CS graduate with a minor in Economics (econometrics), he brings a multidisciplinary curiosity spanning software engineering, robotics, ML, data science, and quantitative trading. At Instagram and earlier at Amazon and several startups, he has shipped scalable features and improved UX for millions of users while also optimizing web performance and automating lead generation pipelines. He combines strong full‑stack skills (React/TypeScript, Python, NoSQL) with teaching and mentoring experience from university course assistance and youth instruction. Notably, he has a track record of taking small automation projects to production-ready systems that materially accelerate business workflows.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at South Brunswick High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, French