About

Kusha Sahu is a Full Stack Developer with over 6 years of experience in the field of software development. Currently working as an SDE 3 at Urban Company, he has made significant contributions to the company's platform, including integrating with FB API for custom audiences, revamping the bookings page of the app, and integrating Razor Pay for a COVID fund for the company's partners. Kusha has also enabled customers to give tips online to providers, resulting in extra income for them during the tough times of COVID. He has started weekly knowledge sessions for his team and is actively involved in mentoring new employees and juniors. Prior to his current role, Kusha worked as an SDE 1 at Urban Company, where he was responsible for software design for Subscriptions Product, resulting in a 23% revenue contribution. He also implemented the Rebooking/Book Again Feature, resulting in a 5% increase in request funnel, 20% decrease in CX calls, and 5% decrease in cancellations of requests. Kusha also researched and implemented unit testing using JEST, which is now used by almost all teams and microservices at the company. He mentored around 7 new team members and participated in hiring drives, taking interviews for hiring. Before joining Urban Company, Kusha worked as an Associate Programmer at Tata, where he implemented and maintained the Pharmacy Side Product, including the integration of new vendors and new requirements, and maintenance of master data of medicines in Postgres database. He also implemented Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Integration, S3 Security, and IText PDF generation. Kusha also implemented a face-recognition API using AWS Rekognition for an office hackathon, solved 60+ bugs on various microservices of the products, and supported email-reading of various 3rd parties in API to update statuses and information of orders and notifying users. Kusha holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT). He is also a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Kusha has a good algorithm and data structure background and is interested in learning new technologies, projects, and events dedicated to the welfare of society. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, test, Microservices, Search, UI, AWS, Integration, Web, Postgres, and Backend.