Shashank Kaushik

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Greater Seattle Area

About

Experienced problem solver and builder with a passion for working on emerging problems in computing. * Strong background in designing, building and operating Distributed Systems at Cloud scale. * MS in Computer Science, UC San Diego '15 * Strong programming experience in C++, Java, C#, Python, Go.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Google
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    BigQuery & BigLake

  • Senior Software Engineer at Meta
    Feb 2021 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

    Standardization and Verification of replication/consensus protocols across several high-scale databases across Facebook.

  • Software Engineer at Microsoft
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Hybrid Cloud Storage Services on Microsoft Azure

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
    Aug 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    I worked on EC2's Network Monitoring service. - Redesigned the core component of the service to be distributed, highly available and resilient to network partitions and other failures. - Designed and developed a new control plane data caching and vending service to deliver personalized service health notifications on AWS Personal Health Dashboard. - Implemented tools and monitoring to enable 5x faster, continuous deployments that greatly eased operational burden and enabled the team to iterate faster.

  • Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, San Diego
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2015 · 9 mos

    Developing a hybrid parallel system for large-scale earthquake simulation. Area: High Performance Computing