About

Avanika Krishnaswamy is a Software Engineer at Loom with over 5 years of experience in the field. She is also an Ethereum Blockchain Engineer with a keen interest in creating user-focused, database-centric, decentralized, and robust applications. Avanika has a drive for continual learning and is passionate about creative and efficient problem-solving, decision making, and collaboration to create interactive and user-centered applications. Avanika has a unique perspective on user interactions with websites, applications, and software platforms, thanks to her background in neuroscience, medicine, and art. She is eager to leverage this background to provide new and innovative ideas to the industry. Avanika is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, Ruby on Rails, Hasura, Node.js, Express.js, SQL, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and NPM. She has also been exposed to Redux, React Native, MongoDB, jQuery, EJS, Python, JSON Web Tokens, Solidity, and web3.js. In her current role as a Software Engineer at Loom, Avanika is responsible for video creation and transcription. Prior to this, she worked at Atrium as a Software Engineer, where she built a legal tech platform and marketplace using TypeScript, ReactJS, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and Hasura. She also improved legal team productivity by creating a project management application for lawyers to collaborate on 1500+ projects and to standardize 100 workflows. Avanika is also a co-founder and Full Stack Engineer at AcceptMyCrypto, where she led a team of 10 engineers in developing an e-commerce web and mobile platform in JavaScript, ReactJS, React Native, Redux, Node.js, Express.js, and SQL. Avanika has a Full Stack Web Development degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Professional Blockchain Engineer degree from Study the Blockchain. She also has a Medicine degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Neuroscience from Saint Louis University. Avanika's technical skills include software engineering, Javascript, SQL, Ruby, Ethereum, Web3, Solidity, blockchain, Typescript, decentralized, MySQL, Redux, web, MongoDB, ReactJS, and mobile. She is a passionate supporter of diversity in technology and has hosted regular Women Who Code events at Atrium.