# Kaushal K.

> 🚀 Software Engineer | Node.js | Typescript | Distributed Systems | REST APIs | React.js | Next.js | B2B SaaS systems & applications | Fullstack | Backend

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaushal

A software engineer who loves utilizing new technologies to build apps. Feel free to contact me! I like making new connections :)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Maestro.io
Jan 2023 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States
● Conducted load testing to identify bottlenecks in a critical GCS Bucket Cron microservice and optimized operations, reducing URL-to-index.html mapping time by 85%.
● Integrated Stripe's payment gateway API, enabling real-time billing updates, improving the user payment experience, and eliminating manual support.
● Led the development of a subscription-based monetization feature, designing API architecture, sprint planning, and implementing backend & frontend components.
● Developed and Maintained 100+ microservices (Cron jobs, RPC, RESTful APIs), improving system flexibility, scalability, and reliability via comprehensive unit testing and documentation.
● Utilized Shopify API and pair programming to enhance e-commerce features, meeting a tight 1-month client deadline, and driving a 5% revenue increase compared to last year.
● Resolved P0 & P1 production incidents, ensuring minimal downtime, uninterrupted client operations, and mitigating potential revenue losses.
● Joined client calls to troubleshoot iOS SDK integration, gather feedback, and implement improvements, ensuring seamless customer adoption and satisfaction.
● Drove architectural decision-making, conducting PoCs, and presenting research to refine microservice infrastructure and API data flow.
● Facilitated Agile practices, including stand-ups and sprint retrospectives, ensuring team alignment and timely issue resolution.

### Software Engineer @ S2 Genomics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Livermore, California, United States
Achievements:
● Architected the next-generation instrument calibration solution through extensive data collection and testing, resulting in a script that surpasses disposable carriage variability by 20% in consistency.
● Designed and developed an R&D application utilizing .NET 6 and legacy code, resulting in a more efficient and feature-rich workflow for cell and nuclei isolation experiments compared to commercial solutions.
● Built a .NET-based internal app that reduced instrument baseline testing time from 20 to 5 minutes, streamlining
operations and becoming the R&D standard for baselining and troubleshooting.
● Implemented C# scripts to automate the collection of specific feature data, enhancing data gathering efficiency by enabling off-hours collection at a rate twice as fast.

### Associate System Engineer @ S2 Genomics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Livermore, California, United States
Achievements: 
- Integrated two troubleshooting scripts, resulting in faster and more accurate results. Improved assembly and baseline process efficiency by 50% through centralization.
- Conducted thorough investigations to resolve software and device-related issues during instrument troubleshooting

### Research Associate @ S2 Genomics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Livermore, California, United States
Achievements: 
- Authored Python scripts to streamline product baselining tasks.
- Conducted research and developed new tissue dissociation protocols for the Singulator 100, a hands-free instrument for single cell/nuclei dissociation for RNA-sequencing. Focused on Pancreas and Adipose tissue cell protocols, optimizing high titer and yield for small tissue samples, and worked with human lung and tumor tissue.

### TOM Department Chair's Assistant @ California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pomona, California, United States
I carried out various tasks for Dr. He, Head of the CPP, Technology Operations Management (TOM) Department.
I quickly understood the requirements and provide exceptional service to students and professors.
I would lead orientations and kept the TOM department organized at Cal Poly Pomona.

### Retail Sales Specialist @ Haggar Clothing Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Livermore, California, United States
I devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain an outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.
At times, I would single-handily maintained the store and provided customer service.
I was responsible for closing and sending daily reports to the district manager.

### Retail Salesperson @ Polo Ralph Lauen
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Livermore, California, United States
My first job in the real world where I learned and increased customer satisfaction repeat business through a relentless pursuit of resolutions to problems arising from the product.
I finished special projects and assignments which were given by the manager.
Top 10 in sales out of the 25 employees working in the men's department.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Biotechnology
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Full Stack Engineering
App Academy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Amador Valley High School
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kaushalsk
- Website: https://kaushalsk.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23