About

Kanishq Sunil is a seasoned Software Engineer with over four years of experience in building modern web applications. He is passionate about user accessibility and has developed solutions for active, growing platforms. Kanishq is fluent in developing software solutions using various technologies, including ReactJS, Javascript, and CI/CD. He is a hackathon veteran and enjoys designing large-scale systems. Currently working as a Graduate Software Engineer at the University of Maryland, Kanishq is building products for the Civil Engineering Department to help analyze and improve road safety projects. He has also worked as an SDE-1 at HackerRank, where he learned how to maintain, review, and optimize large projects. During his time at HackerRank, Kanishq migrated backbone code to React.js for the settings page in the community site, planned and broke down development efforts for the migration of contest pages, spearheaded his team to build a new project from scratch in under two months, mentored new teammates, and helped them get up to speed with various codebases and product flows. Additionally, he was an active member of front-end meets and participated in cross-team efforts to optimize products. Kanishq has also worked as a Summer Analyst at Citi, where he developed a continuous deployment pipeline for a transaction service, reducing downtime from 48 hours to less than 30 minutes. He also implemented a continuous deployment system to enable developers to build and test their changes in a preview environment before pushing them to production. Kanishq holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from SSN College of Engineering. He is skilled in frontend development, software engineering, web development, and testing. With relevant experience of 1.78 years, Kanishq is a creative problem-solver who enjoys brainstorming on high-impact projects that solve real-world problems. When he is not coding, Kanishq enjoys gaming and traveling.