About Kaushik Shankar

Kaushik Shankar is a software engineer and problem solver. He was born in a small city in India in 1992 and later immigrated to the United States, where he attended Oxford Academy High School, learning from exceptional teachers who encouraged his interest in computers and mathematics. After graduating from high school in 2009, Kaushik completed his undergraduate B.S. degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2012. While finishing his degree, he worked at Drumbi, a B2C communication software startup on locally-aware iOS and Android mobile applications. After graduating from UCI, he started his position at Amazon as a software development engineer, where he grew through taking on engineering challenges of increasing scope across products within Amazon's advertising organization over the course of nine-and-a-half years. Most recently, Kaushik has left Amazon to work on projects independently.