# Karthik Chandrakanth

> Senior Software Engineer at PayPal

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karthikchandrakanth

Passionate full stack web application developer with 10 years of experience.

Started my journey in 2009 as a web application developer with PSD to HTML projects with some jQuery menus and animations. Quickly became an expert in developing/modifying modules for CMS and LMS systems like Joomla, Moodle, Prestashop, Wordpress etc.

As a next step in my career I picked up full stack application development in cakePHP and Ruby On Rails. My passion to develop a single page web applications reached a next level when I worked with a team of experts to build a single page responsive application at a reputed firm with a huge customer base. 

To advance my career, I pursued Master of Science in Computer Science at Northeastern University, Boston. In the summer of 2014, I was PayPal's checkout team's summer intern which helped me gain knowledge about the whole new world of online payments, with applications capable of handling way more traffic than what I had experienced so far.

With my current position, as a Senior Software Engineer at PayPal, I am always excited to talk about  GraphQL, React, App Performance, experimentation, Internationalization etc.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Present | San Jose, California

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California

### Research Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area

### Summer Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, California
Team of three - Developed The Data Analytic tool

### Front-end Engineer @ Cleartrip.com
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
Played a major role in front-end development of 'tuxedo' for hotels : http://www.cleartrip.com/hotels

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sourcebits LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore
ROR Developer

### Web Application Developer @ DiscountPandit.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore
DiscountPandit.com is a product of Vavia Technologies. My performance in services projects at Vavia Technologies fetched me the team lead position to develop the product - discountpandit.com

### Front End Specialist @ Vavia Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Passionate about web technologies, UI/UX Seminars, traveling, socializing etc.

### Web Developer Intern @ Vavia Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Freelancing @ freelancing
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Freelancing projects on Joomla. 3D flash creation for my own website.

### Intern @ 3D Solid Compression (P) Ltd
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### B.E in Information Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karthik-chandrakanth
- Portfolio: http://www.blakhole.info

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Last updated: 2026-03-31