Vaibhav Kansagara
SDE-2(L61) at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Kansagara is an SDE-2 with nine years of experience building high-throughput, compliance-driven services and user-facing features for large-scale e-commerce systems. He has shipped Java backends and React frontends at Amazon that handled millions of requests per day, delivered a privacy-compliant data-deletion service, and drove a navigation change that produced $10.4M annualized incremental OPS. Now at Microsoft, he continues to focus on scalable, cloud-native solutions while mentoring junior engineers and serving as a code-review bar raiser. His open-source work on the Xapian search library and earlier Google Summer of Code contributions show deep systems and ranking expertise—raising LETOR accuracy from ~45% to 87%—reflecting both algorithmic skill and production-grade engineering. Based in Bengaluru with an MS in Computer Science from IIIT-B, he blends competitive programming pedigree with pragmatic product impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Hindi, English, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
search-engine10
error-handling10
c-language10
exception-handling10
cprogramming-language10
perl7
python7
php7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xapian/xapian
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Mirror of the Xapian repository. You're welcome to open pull requests on github (they'll just get merged indirectly).
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 34 PRs, 246 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vaibhav primarily contributed to enhancing the Xapian search engine library by implementing new exception classes and improving error handling within the code. They introduced `DatabaseNotFoundError` and `DatabaseClosedError` exception classes to provide more specific error messages and handle database opening and closing issues effectively. The user's modifications involved changes across multiple language bindings and core files, indicating a focus on improving the stability and robustness of the library's core functionalities and its integration across different programming languages.
mergedpull-requestsxapianwelcome
VaibhavKansagara/xapian
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Mirror of the Xapian repository. You're welcome to open pull requests on github (they'll just get merged indirectly).
Contributions:5 PRs, 404 pushes, 98 branches in 8 months
mergedpull-requestsxapianwelcome
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