Kaushik Lakshmikanth
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco,CA
Summary
Full stack Software Engineer. I have broad experience working on large frontend apps, backend APIs and developer SDKs.
I especially like working on developer focused APIs, SDKs and UIs.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Highnote, Inc
1 2023 - Current
- Responsible for shepherding API Design and implementation from contributing product teams.
- Core maintainer of the GraphQL middleware layer. Responsible for building observability, tooling and creating code patterns for contributors.
- Develop and maintain webhook capabilities to deliver real time events to customers.
- Built a Payment Checkout SDK that is PCI compliant and integrated with our API.
- Develop features for Highnote's UI dashboard
Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL
Twitter
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Working on tools to improve and accelerate GraphQL development at Twitter.
- Modernized codebase and added instrumentation for several internal tools to better understand customer usage.
(Senior) Software Engineer, Web Client
Twitter
8 2016 - 5 2021
- Implemented Server Side Rendering to improve SEO performance of the web app.
- Implemented logging instrumentation to measure various performance metrics on the Twitter web app. Improved performance of the web app by speeding up network API calls by 30%.
- Mentored and onboarded interns and new hires. Taught an introductory "Building Product Features" course that was part of company onboarding.
SDE Intern
Amazon Web Services
05.2015 - 08.2015
- Worked on a cloud powered BI service - Amazon QuickSight.
- Technical design and implementation of a key feature for the product.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 08.2014 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
RV College of Engineering
Bengaluru 08.2009 - 05.2013
Skills
GraphQL
NodeJS
React/NextJS
Web performance
Webpack
TypeScript
Kubernetes
Aurora/Mesos
NoSQL
GCP Products
Hobbies
I love gardening and like to spend my weekends tending to my vegetable garden and house plants.
I enjoy biking around San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL
Twitter
06.2021 - 11.2022
SDE Intern
Amazon Web Services
05.2015 - 08.2015
Master of Science - Computer Science
Ohio State University
08.2014 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
RV College of Engineering
08.2009 - 05.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Highnote, Inc
1 2023 - Current
(Senior) Software Engineer, Web Client
Twitter
8 2016 - 5 2021
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