About

Kaustubh Najan is a result-driven software engineer with over 9 years of experience in product development. He is currently working as a Staff Software Development Engineer at appdirect, where he is responsible for developing a billing platform for subscription-based recurring SAAS services. He has also designed and developed various pricing strategies to rate customer usages and automated solutions to re-rate failed usages. Kaustubh is a passionate programmer with a strong adherence to Test-Driven Development and JUnits. He is adept at solving critical product issues and has in-depth knowledge of Design patterns, Data Structures, and algorithms. He has a proven ability to adapt to new technologies and concepts quickly. In his previous roles, Kaustubh has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Intelliswift Software, where he was responsible for feature development and bug fixing in Apigee, a highly distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant microservice-based API management platform. He has also worked as a Staff Specialist Product Developer at BMC Software. Kaustubh has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology. He has a diverse tech stack that includes Java, Microservices, Kafka, Spring Boot, Docker, AWS, MongoDB, and more. He has relevant experience of 9.53 years and has improved code coverage from 15% to 95% for all five microservices that his team owns. He has also added contract tests, API integration tests, and integration tests for their event-based pipeline.