Kaushik Golithadka

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About

I am a passionate and motivated software engineer with a strong track record of success in developing and delivering high-quality software. I am proficient in a variety of programming languages and technologies, including Python, Java, ReactJS, AngularJS, Spring Boot, and Flask. I have experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. I am also experienced with DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.

Software Developer

I was a Software Engineer Intern at Autodesk San Francisco, US, and a Senior Software Engineer at Micro Focus Bengaluru India.

  • Birthday: 6 Nov 1996
  • Email: golithad@usc.edu
  • Phone: +1 5035160539
  • City: Los Angeles, CA, US

I am currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I graduated from Bangalore University with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science and Engineering in 2019. In my professional experience, my day-to-day majorly involves building Backend and frontend components using Python, Java, ReactJS, GraphQL, REST APIs, AWS, Docker, Spring, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Libraries and Tools: Python, Java, React, Angular, Flask, Django, Angular Material, Dockers, Kubernetes

Python
JAVA
ReactJS
Typescript/Javascript
SQL
Web Development
Devops

Experience

Professional Experience

Software Engineer Intern

May 2023 - August 2023

Autodesk, San Francisco, CA, US

  • Improved AutoCAD applicationโ€™s response time by 10% through new features using Python, ReactJS.
  • Reduced API response time by 25% by building 30+ GraphQL APIs integrated with AWS services like DynamoDB and Lambda, enabling seamless communication and efficient data management.
  • Increased throughput and handled 25% more concurrent user requests by containerizing and deploying the app on Kubernetes in a large-scale Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.

Graduate Research Assistant

September 2022 - Present

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US

  • Skilled in Sleep pattern recognition and data analysis using PyTorch, Matplotlib, and Python.
  • Led a team of 20 in organizing events that raised awareness and funds for African-American elders.
  • Collaborated on research projects with USC, UCLA, and UCI, resulting in new insights into sleep patterns

Senior Software Engineer

March 2022 - Present

Micro Focus, Bengaluru, India

  • Backend Development: ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐—ซ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† compared to existing products as I ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ and ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ the ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ผ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ for antimalware product and hosted it on a Docker Container. Implemented using ๐—๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ ๐Ÿด, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring REST, Spring Data, Database Bulk Copy APIs.
  • Machine Learning: Designed and ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฑ.๐Ÿฎ% ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜† in the ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น and used it in the login feature as a Proof of Concept to make it easier to use and robust.
  • Cool Solution for Customers: ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ the process of Windows 11 upgrade on the eligible devices in the zone. I developed a Shell Script to generate the list of eligible Devices which may include up to 150K devices and then initiate a windows 11 upgrade. This ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฑ,๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€ of the Customer IT admin's ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ for the windows 11 Upgrade on the ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ๐—ž ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€.

Software Engineer

August 2019 - February 2022

Micro Focus, Bengaluru, India

  • Full Stack: Developed AMCA (Agile Methodologies Contrivance Analysis) using ๐—™๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ด๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ - a web-based agile project tracking dashboard helpful in tracking epics, stories, defects, and other tasks.
  • Automation: D๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ an ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ to generate Test failure reports for higher Management. Thereby ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ of manual effort. I was Recognized at the Dept. level for developing this framework.
  • DevOps: Bridged the gap between the Development, Testing, and Operation activities by ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด the ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ and ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด the functionality of the Antimalware Microservice through CI/CD scripts using Jenkins. This ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€ on a day-to-day basis, and also removed the dependency on the main build.
  • ZENworks Inventory: Solved various Complex Customers Problems in the legacy feature of Inventory by giving ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—˜๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€. Worked extensively on Java, Hibernate, and .NET

Software Development Intern

January 2019 - July 2019

Micro Focus, Bengaluru, India

  • Web Services: ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ the ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น ๐—”๐—ฃ๐—œ๐˜€ using the ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, HATEOAS, and JSON and maintained High-quality code through Unit Tests and Integration Tests.
  • Automation: ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ Common Appliance Framework (CAF) โ€“ by automating the process of ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด OVA files from the build server and ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜†๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ of the Appliance Virtual machine.
  • Took the ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† of being ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ in the team of Interns and followed all the Scrum practices.

Software Development Intern

July 2017 - April 2018

Pushkala Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, India

  • ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ a scalable ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป to control the Aquarium light using the ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ to facilitate the Deep-Sea lighting effect.
  • ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ the Kinitis series Microcontroller using ๐—˜๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—– and used ๐—ฃ๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐˜๐˜€ for validation.
  • This internship provided me the exposure to corporate work life and industry-level knowledge as an Undergraduate Student.

Teaching Assistant

Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru, India

  • ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€, ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€, and ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜‡๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐˜€, and held office hours to assist undergraduate students with code debugging and homework for CSI 103 - ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—–, CSI 104 - ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—”๐—น๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—บ๐˜€.
  • ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ Fresh CS and ECE UG Graduated Students of the 2017 batch on ๐—ข๐—ฏ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜-๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด at ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€ Bangalore.
  • ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ 3rd-year and 4th-year Undergraduate CS Students of KSIT University and SKIT University Bangalore on ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science and Engineering

2015 - 2019

University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru, India

  • Awarded ๐—š๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—น for being in the ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป'๐˜€ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ-๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต of Bangalore University
  • Ranked as ๐—ข๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฝ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐˜†
  • ๐—™๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ of Fiesta, the Culture Festival of UVCE that drew over 10,000 people - Responsible for Securing Sponsors and manage Organizers and Volunteers.
  • ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ of the batch - Responsible for Organizing classes, and liaise between professor and students.
  • Part of the ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฒ team at ๐—œ๐—˜๐—˜๐—˜ ๐—จ๐—ฉ๐—–๐—˜.
  • Member of ๐—œ๐—˜๐—˜๐—˜ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜†.

Result: 83.33%

School

2015

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kasaragod, India

Result: 93.4%

  • ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ค๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ‘% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง+ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ.
  • Captain of interschool district level Kho Kho team.
  • Won Gold medal in interschool volleyball tournament.
  • Won 2nd place in Interschool MIME Competition.

Projects

Angular Django

Nightowl

Nightowl is an online book hub application. There are 3 views for the end users - Home, Bookdetails and Dashboard.

Angular

Stock Market App

Developed a simple stock market application using Angular and Alpha Vantage stock API. It is deployed on Heroku.

Angular

Tic Tac Toe

A simple Tic Tac Toe app using Angular and deployed on Heroku

Angular

Rock Paper Scissor

A simple Rock Paper Scissors game designed using Angular and deployed on Heroku

Certificates & Recognition

Deep Learning PadhAI - One Fourth Labs
  • The course covered Perceptron, Cross-Entropy, L2 Regularization, CNN, RNN, Hyperparameter Tuning, Object Detection, LSTMs, GRUs, YOLO, and more in detail with theory and implementations using Python.
Machine Learning from Coursera
  • The course covered Gradient Descent, Linear Regression, TensorFlow, Decision Trees, Collaborative Filtering, and Recommender Systems with implementations using Python.
โ€ข Foundation of Data Science from PadhAI โ€“ One Fourth Labs
  • The course covered Data Visualization, Random variables, Normal Distributions, Probability Density Function, Central Limit Theorem, Chi-Square Distribution, Hypothesis Testing, Box plot, Violin plot, Bar plots, Heat map, Pie chart, and Donut Chart with theory using Python.

Awards & Honors

Awarded Rising Star of ZENworks 2020 at Micro Focus
Awarded ZENworks Dream Team for developing Antimalware Microservice at Micro Focus.
Awarded Gold Medal for being in the Dean's Merit List 2015-19 of Bangalore University.

Contact

Location:

Los Angeles, CA, US

Call:

+1 5035160539