# Kavita V. > Software Engineer @ Figma Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kavitav UC Berkeley EECS grad passionate about technology and always eager to learn. Reach out @ kavitavijayan [at] berkeley.edu! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States πŸ’Ύ Database Infrastructure ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Backend/API Engineer on LinkedIn News Building tools for our Editorial team to surface the most relevant content to our users. Check out your News right rail! ### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California Backend/API engineer on LinkedIn Pages - Built an email verification platform to allow employees to access employee-only content on a company page - Built an AI ranking model to sort content suggestions - Assisted in the massive overhaul of the Pages Admin permissioning system ### Software Engineering Intern @ Coinbase Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Software Engineering Intern on Coinbase Pro (Trading Platform) ### Senior Advisor @ CodeBase Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA ### VP of Marketing @ CodeBase Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA Handled branding efforts across the organization ### VP of Internal @ CodeBase Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA Handled internal professional and social development. ### Software Consultant @ CodeBase Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA CodeBase is a consulting organization that provides technical consulting for bay-area startups. For the Spring 2017 semester I was a member of the Ongo team. I helped integrate the company's application with a variety of hardware devices, specifically FitBit technologies, using Node.js, OAuth, and MongoDB. ### Software Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Software Engineering Intern on LinkedIn Elevate ### Software Engineering Intern @ LendingHome Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern on the Acquisition team ### Computer Science Mentor @ Breakout Mentors Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California As a Computer Science Mentor, I work with Bay Area high school and middle schoolers to teach them the fundamentals of computer programing in fun and interactive ways. Through the development of long term projects, my students are able to gain a firm and comprehensive understanding of programming languages such as Scratch, Python and Java. ### Technology Analyst @ Morgan Stanley Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area At Morgan Stanley, I was a part of the Enterprise Infrastructure department. Within the Enterprise Infrastructure department I was a member of the DBA and Autosys teams. As part of the DBA team, I created example code in Java and Python to allow for easy database connectivity to DB2, MySQL, Sybase, Greenplum, Terradata, and Oracle databases without compromising client credentials. Within the Autosys team, I created Python scripts that read through company databases and ensured that all the automated jobs within these databases had the proper metadata. I also maintained a web application that kept track of current jobs and created new automated jobs. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Academy of Technology and Computer Science Bergen County Academies ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kavitavijayan --- Source: https://flows.cv/kavitav JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kavitav/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05