# Kavin Kumar Palanisamy

> Software Engineer - Data Platform at Nextdoor

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kavinkumarpalanisamy

•   3+ years of experience in Full stack development
•   Knowledge on OOP and MVC development
•   Familiar with most of the object oriented design patterns 
•   Experience with working in an agile scrum environment

Specialties: Languages:		Java, C++, C, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Scheme
Operating Systems: 		Linux, Windows, Mac 
Web Server:			Tomcat, Jetty
Tools	:			Eclipse, Ant, Maven, SVN, JUnit, JAXB
Frameworks:			Spring, Hibernate, Mediawiki, Amazon Mechanical Turk
ETL Tools:			Talend
Database Technologies:		PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Data Platform @ Nextdoor
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Data Engineer @ Glassdoor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer, Data @ Glassdoor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Glassdoor
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Glassdoor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mill Valley, California
Backend Engineer part of the Employer Profile team

### Platform Software Engineer @ Kabam
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
SODA-WSKE (Java, Android, Scala)

•The SDK is developed to track Accounts, Rewards and Business Intelligence Data across multiple games
•Coded functionality for Single Sign to integrate Kabam Accounts with Social (Facebook & Google) accounts. Added new UI screens and did the server side work for the same
•Contributed and made use of an open source template-driven engine used for our Android/iOS SDK to make use of a different third party JSON parser library to account for lesser SDK size with no performance hit
•Worked on a few modules on the server side to track accounts and add bonus reward points

### Software Engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | RTP
System Setup (C# .NET, LINQ, ONTAP)	
				
 • Developer in the Widows Installer team for installing NetApp’s Storage system, ONTAP on disks.
 • Gained deep understanding and developed code to support installing ONTAP OS in aspects of 
 Networking, Disk and Cluster provisioning
 * Conducted scrums on a daily basis and lead Sprint Planning meetings
		
NetApp Web Framework (Java, GWT, Sencha GXT, JUnit)
				 
 • Member of an User Interface infrastructure team that is leveraged by several NetApp products
 • Worked closely with Interaction designers to prototype several widgets and iteratively developed 
 them

### Software Developer @ Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Currently working on Gene Therapy (Java, Hibernate, JAXB, PostgreSQL)

•	Parsing XML Gene data using JAXB and cleaning the data based on the requirements 
•	Geo-coding and Science coding the data and displaying it on an open source Map for viewing statistics

### Researcher & Web Developer @ School of Library and Information Science
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Amazon Turk survey (Java, PHP, MySQL)	
 •	Designed external survey pages and deployed them in Amazon Mechanical Turk API

Optimizing Search (PHP, Java, MySQL)	                                                                  
•	Member on a research project involving optimizing search of documents using machine learning algorithms 
•	Coded webpages in PHP and added special functionalities to search all research papers of IR conferences 
•	Was a programming member of the team to design a Wikipedia engine with mediawiki API and Templates

### Software developer/ Part time @ EDIWATCH, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Remote
Automated Report Generation (Talend, Java)				       
•	Implemented prototypes for different set of reports generation in Talend
•	Performed Iterative development over three finalised reports

### Summer Intern @ EDIWATCH, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Data Validation and Ingestion (Talend, Java, Ant)     			        
•	Worked on building a Data Validation and Integration (DVI) project to automate pre-processing of health data.
•	Implemented business logic for 12 clients of the company in the DVI
•	Designed database load functionality to load data to Oracle database
•	Developed a rule in the product to automate the Speciality Code generation for Medical Providers


## Education
### Master's in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington

### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Anna University Chennai

### G.D


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kapalanisamy
- GitHub: https://github.com/kapalani

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Last updated: 2026-04-11