About

Kush Parikh is a Software Engineer 3 at PayPal with a passion for the payments industry. He is proficient in Java and has experience with C++, Javascript, and React for various personal and professional projects. Kush is a dynamic developer with the ability to quickly grasp new tech stacks and contribute to design, solutioning, and product discussions. Currently, Kush is a Software Engineer 3 in the Merchants – Unbranded Checkouts team at PayPal. In his last two years at PayPal, he has been a part of the Pricing & FX Platform Team, where he has worked on and led multiple caching optimizations that delivered significant latency reductions for high traffic APIs, enabled near real-time forex rates to be applied on transactions, and reduced L1 cache size. Kush has also led a team of four members to realize significant operational overhead savings by streamlining application logging and enabling async compression for request-response. Apart from his work at PayPal, Kush has also been a coding trainer at a few colleges and has helped students with tech interviews. He has worked on incident recovery strategies, team education, and monitoring transformation as part of his volunteer efforts. Kush holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a minor in Finance from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also has a Matriculation degree from Prakash Higher Secondary School. Kush's relevant experience in the software engineering field is 5.03 years.