Shivkanth Bagavathy is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and shipping backend systems, currently leading as Chief Server at Mainframe in San Francisco. He spent six years at Meta’s Business R&D group and previously helped scale AI-driven recruitment tooling at Paradox.ai, blending production-grade engineering with ML-adjacent products. Comfortable across systems, backend APIs and QA, he contributes to notable open-source projects (e.g., adding unemojify support and tests to the popular node-emoji repo) and keeps older Node.js compatibility in mind. A dual master's in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona, Shivkanth combines technical depth with product sensibility and a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at University of Arizona - Eller College of Management
chettinad vidyashram
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shivkanth contributed to the project by implementing new functionality and writing tests for the existing code. Specifically, they implemented an "unemojify" function to convert emojis to their text representations. They also wrote tests for the new "unemojify" function and modified existing tests. Furthermore, the user appears to have updated code to support older versions of Node.js.
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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