# Kushagra Bainsla

> Incoming @ LinkedIn | CS Grad @ SJSU | Distributed Systems & Infrastructure

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kushagra

I’m a backend and infrastructure engineer currently pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at San José State University. My work focuses on building scalable, performance-sensitive distributed systems operating in real-world production environments.

Before grad school, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Uniqode, where I designed and optimized cloud-native services and real-time analytics infrastructure powering a global SaaS platform.

I’ll be joining LinkedIn as a Systems & Infrastructure Engineer Intern in Summer 2026. I’m particularly interested in distributed systems, large-scale data infrastructure, and the intersection of systems engineering and machine learning.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ UNIQODE
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Built and maintained scalable backend systems for our $2M ARR digital business card platform with 99.99% uptime.
- Developed an event-driven email automation engine using Celery & GCP, increasing engagement by 36%.
- Designed an adaptive notification system delivering personalized messages, improving relevance by 40%.
- Implemented a secure event ingestion pipeline for Amplitude, cutting analytics data loss by 97%.
- Reduced logging overhead by optimizing Datadog filters, saving 300+ EC2 hours and $12K/year in monitoring costs.

### Software Engineer @ UNIQODE
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
- Cut API latency by 42% through query tuning and custom Django optimizations (P95 < 150ms).
- Led the migration of our real-time analytics infrastructure from Elasticsearch to Apache Pinot, cutting query latency by 97% (25s → 600ms).
- Engineered and deployed asynchronous processing pipelines to generate high-throughput email reports for over 200K products, resulting in increased customer engagement.
- Integrated Azure AD and Salesforce, contributing to $300K+ in annual enterprise revenue.
- Built a usage-based incentive engine with Stripe, reducing churn by 34%.
- Scaled bulk workflows by 12x through batched inserts and database tuning.
- Mentored 3 backend interns, conducted 70+ technical interviews, and improved onboarding documentation to streamline hiring.

### Engineering Intern @ UNIQODE
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
- Built REST APIs for bulk operations (CSV export, soft delete), reducing action time by 40%.
- Developed a real-time IP threat detection system (Tor, VPN, bots) to enhance analytics security.
- Increased test coverage to 93% by writing unit tests and fixing legacy bugs.

### Summer Intern @ LetsEndorse
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | India
- Built modular React.js dashboard components, reducing time to track KPIs by 10x.
- Developed 15+ production-grade screens for a React Native delivery partner app.
- Improved UI/UX workflows to double efficiency for delivery partners.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
San José State University
Jan 2025 – Jan 2027

### BTech - Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
UIET - Kurukshetra University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Central Board of Secondary Education in Science
Aravali International School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kushagrabainsla
- Website: https://kushagrabainsla.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-20