# Kashif Bagdadi > Senior Software Engineer at CarGurus Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kashif Graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Northeastern University (Apr 2020) and currently working as a software engineer at CarGurus. Highly proficient in technologies such as Java, SpringBoot, Angular, React, Node.js, and MySQL. Leveraging these technologies have built tangible and quantifiable mobile and web applications at my various internships. My GitHub: https://github.com/Raptor95 ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ CarGurus Jan 2023 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ CarGurus Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Key member of the DevX Tools team that is responsible for improving developer experience throughout the organization. We accomplish this by building internal tools from scratch that enable developers to streamline the process of developing new microservices across CarGurus, deploy code faster with fewer issues and outages, and reduce operational complexity. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area Was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the graduate-level course CS 5600 Computer Systems. • Mentored 75 grad students during weekly office hours on various graduate-level computer system topics such as concurrency, multithreading, virtual memory, garbage collection, modern filesystems etc. • Provided feedback and guidance to students to improve their problem-solving skills and provided tutoring for weekly assignments. • Graded weekly homework assignments • Managed and answered students’ questions daily on the classroom Q&A platform, Piazza. ### Engineering Intern @ Instart Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area Key member of the Security solutions team at Instart. • Designed & developed a security defense capability for Instart’s bot management product that protects against online fraud and abuse by detecting various malicious bots based on header order security rules • Implemented a new feature in one of Instart’s security product that combats the rising threat of fake web crawlers abusing or slowing down client websites by identifying the type and validity of a web crawler using user-agent and ASN • Designed and implemented a new root detection algorithm in various Instart’s security products using Lua which improved the existing detection accuracy from 94.32% to 100%. • Developed and built test suite in TypeScript and used nightwatch.js framework along with browser-stack to perform automated end-to-end testing for the bot management product among various browsers and different browser versions. • Implemented a global whitelist feature for the internal Nginx servers to whitelist IP addresses/subnets from security rules. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area Was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course CS 5770 Software Vulnerability and Security. • Mentored grad students during weekly office hours on various software and network security topics. • Provided student feedback and guidance to improve their problem-solving skills and provided tutoring for weekly assignments. • Graded quizzes and midterm papers • Managed and answered students’ questions daily on the classroom Q&A platform, Piazza. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Area, India • Conducted research to redesign the employee management web application used by the Federal Reserve Bank of India to make it more modern and user-friendly. • Created prototypes with a team to test the usability and effectiveness of the application. • Developed the new application in Angular 5 framework, using the feedback and responses from the prototypes ### Android Developer - Intern @ Xoriant Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Nomura,Hiranandani Business Park,Powai,Mumbai-400076 • Designed and developed a Customer to Customer(C2C) marketplace android application, achieving 5000+ downloads and an average rating of 4.3/5.0 from multiple reviews on the Google Play Store. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Full Stack Web Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering freeCodeCamp Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kashif-bagdadi-8ba555105 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kashif JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kashif/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22