# Kautuk Desai

> Senior Software Engineer @ Addepar

Location: Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kautuk

Work in progress!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Addepar
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Full Stack Software Engineer III @ FactSet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Norwalk, Connecticut

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Hive
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Responsibilities:
- Integrated Github webhook which allows users to quickly view and jump to commits, pull requests, and branches from Hive.
- Created robust React components from wireframes, and interactive product design sessions for table view with hierarchy search, and ability to inline edit, sort, & tag fields.
- Resolved bugs and implemented hotfixes; remodeled 5+ components that improved app performance by 20%.
- Boosted code coverage to more than 80% by writing end-to-end tests in Mocha & Selenium which reduced QA man-hours by 50%.
- Accomplished Circle CI Insights integration with development cycle to reduce bugs.
- Worked closely with designers during brainstorming, design reviews, and iteration of UI improvement.

Tech-stack: React.js, Javascript(ES 7 +), Node.js, Meteor, HTML5, CSS/LESS, Mocha, Bash Scripting

### Software Engineer @ Indus Valley Partners
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai
► Project: Valuation Platform for Private Equity Firm
Period: February 2017 - July 2017
Description:
▪️ Assisted in developing a module that could extract relevant information from Account statements such as balance sheet, income statement, cash flows etc provided in the form of PDF.
▪️ The problem statement of the module was to automate the process of loading investment data in the form of PDF, without much human intervention.
▪️ Analyzed the statements to find unique features for each and creating features that can uniquely identify the required information.
Role: Offshore Developer
Responsibilities:
▪️ Engaging with the client for requirements.
▪️ Analyzing different PDFs to find a pattern.
▪️ Developing software to extract information.
▪️ Mentoring the new recruit on the team.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Indus Valley Partners
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Area, India
►Project: Data warehouse Workflow Automation 
Period: August 2015 - January 2016
Description:
▪️ Automated start of the day financial data loading into the data warehouse which is then used to calculate their holdings and generate reports on top of the data.
▪️ Developed Ad-hoc requests that required a minor change in calculation step. Debugging the issue when the application was unable to get security prices from Bloomberg.
Role: Offshore Developer
Responsibilities: Managing and improving an existing application implemented. 

► Project: Polaris Data warehouse & Reporting Application, Risk Service
Period: January 2016 - February 2017
Description:
▪️ Polaris is an IVP product which generates reports and automates the loading of Start of Day and End of Day financial data into in-house data warehouse.
▪️ The application also allows an analyst to run a compliance check on the data received from Fund Admin (IFS, State Street), the result helps the analyst to generate insights and trade accordingly.
Role: Offshore Developer
Responsibilities:
▪️ Data analysis, development of ad-hoc requests, Report logic creation.
▪️ Development and testing of the end-to-end process.

⇨ Tech Stack: ASP .NET, SQL Server, SSRS, Java, Tomcat Apache, .NET 4.0
⇨ Database: SQL Server 2008 R2, MongoDB


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University at Buffalo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics Engineering
K.J. Somaiya College Of Engineering
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### HSC in Science
K.C College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### SSC in School
S.T Xavier's High School
Jan 1999 – Jan 2009


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22