📄 [Resume](/files/rohitk.pdf)

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## 2025

### *Software Engineer @ [Planned](https://planned.com/), Montréal, QC*
**Oct 2024 – Present**

- Built **agentic workflows with LangChain** in the platform with **Temporal** workflows, contributing to a **$35M Series B**.
- Spearheaded a **multi-city travel cost optimization tool** for global corporate events with multiple third-party API integrations as domain owner (Next.js, TypeScript/**tRPC**, React), leading to **three client signatures**.
- Designed a **prompt library** (exposed via GitHub Models → later Latitude) enabling non-technical stakeholders to **A/B test LLM prompts**.
- Exposed **MCP endpoints** within the product for fellow engineers to build on flexibly.
- Crafted **Claude Code plugins** using agentic hooks to improve developer efficiency across the company.

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## 2024

### *Founding Engineer / Head of Product & Engineering @ [Sponsor a Purpose](https://www.howlcreativesolutions.com/), San Francisco, CA*
**Dec 2023 – Present**

- Architected and built an **all-in-one nonprofit CRM** with multi-app deployment, embedded donation widgets, custom form builders, and automated payouts — competing directly with GiveButter and Bloomerang. Grew revenue from **$0 → $50K (Y1) → $300K (Y2)**.
- Crafted **AI-powered features** including automated donor data imports and integrated **Claude via MCP** with Slack, Paper, and Linear to streamline org-wide operations and internal workflows.
- Launched a **tech consulting practice**, delivering **7 custom web applications** for nonprofit clients using **AWS** (EC2, Lambda, Amplify, S3, RDS, SES), **Django (DRF)**, Postgres, Node, React, and TypeScript.
- Managing engineering and design teams end-to-end while conducting user interviews, hiring talent, and owning the product roadmap to improve PMF.

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## 2023

### *R&D Engineer @ [Open Search Foundation](https://opensearchfoundation.org/) (EU), Graz, Austria*
**Mar 2023 – Jul 2023**

- Engineered **CIFF → Apache Lucene** index conversion, opening the EU's OpenSearchIndex to clients for development.
- Developed a **Javelin Search API** in Java to provide customized index manipulation with the OpenWebIndex, allowing it to be monetized.
- Published a research paper at the **5th International Open Search Symposium (OSSYM), CERN**, about a prototype React.js web application ("Tourism in Graz") to demonstrate the API.

### *Study Abroad @ [Graz University of Technology](https://www.tugraz.at/home), Graz, Austria*
**Feb 2023 – Jun 2023**
Courses: **NLP, Recommender Systems, Social Media Technologies, Data Science & AI**

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## 2022

### *Software Engineer @ Parrot Finance (prev. Staax), San Francisco, CA*
**Jun 2022 – Jan 2023**

- Built **Python/Firebase metrics pipelines** used in pitch decks that secured entry to **TechCrunch Disrupt 2022**. Implemented **AWS ElastiCache** data caching, cutting screen render time from **10s → 2s**.
- Developed an **end-to-end stock categorization feature** (Node.js, React Native, AWS Lambda) that doubled user engagement.

### *Software Engineer @ MealMe, San Francisco, CA*
**Jan 2022 – May 2022**

- Integrated data from **300,000+ stores** across the US and Canada via Python crawlers, adding **+1M orderable products** in food, groceries, and laundry — contributed to **$15M Series A**.
- Engineered **Django endpoints** to improve service interoperability, increasing a core Series A **data-accuracy KPI by ~15%**. Created **compound MongoDB indexes**, accelerating search queries by ~10%.
- Partnered with API clients and built **Flask endpoints** for data retrieval. Onboarded new clients leading to **~20% monthly revenue growth**.

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## 2021

### *Product Manager / Software Developer Intern @ MTLight, Montreal, QC*
**Sep 2021 – Nov 2021**
Owned a **SvelteKit** app turning city murals into AR assets for municipal upkeep; drove roadmap, spec, and deployment with the CEO.

### *DevOps Engineering Intern @ Lixar, Ottawa, ON*
**Jun 2021 – Aug 2021**
Company-wide **GitHub Actions** templates for React/React Native; **AWS CodeDeploy** pipelines for a Spring Boot service; K8s PoCs for scale.

### *Opinions Editor @ Imprint, Waterloo, ON*
**Jan 2021 – Dec 2021**
Coordinated writers and topics; edited and published weekly/bi-weekly columns.

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## 2020

### *Software Engineering Intern @ Palomino, Toronto, ON*
**Sep 2020 – Dec 2020**
Ticketing app (PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Vue.js) with Zendesk integration + cron refresh; legacy jQuery/Ajax migration.

### *News Writer @ Imprint, Waterloo, ON*
**Sep 2020 – Dec 2020**
Wrote weekly opinion pieces for the student-run paper.

### *Full-Stack Development Intern @ IFDS, Toronto, ON*
**Jan 2020 – Apr 2020**
Automated Selenium suites; refactored Java onboarding flows; expense app (Python + React); **AWS Multipart Upload** for large files (**~30%** faster).

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## 2019

### *Biquadris @ CS246, Waterloo, ON*
**Nov 2019**
Implemented a two-player Tetris ("Biquadris") in C++ with classic OOP patterns.
[GitHub](https://github.com/navyamehta/enhancedgamedev)

### *Full-Stack Development Intern @ Cannect, Toronto, ON*
**Jun 2019 – Aug 2019**
Migrated React app (Bootstrap 3 → 4, mobile-first); maintained Vue.js + Rails; supported Docker → K8s migration.

### *ShortStock @ StarterHacks, Waterloo, ON*
**Jan 2019**
Built a personalized stock-news feed with NLP categorization and an MLP classifier for relevance.
[GitHub](https://github.com/akshay2000saxena/ShortStocks)

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## 2018

### *High School Graduation @ NPSk, Bangalore, KA*
**May 2018**
CBSE Grade 12: **96.8%**, CS: **100%**, School Rank: **#4**

### *Scrabble @ NPSk, Bangalore, KA*
**Jan 2018**
Re-created Scrabble in C++ with OOP principles.
[GitHub](https://github.com/rkaushik29/Scrabble)

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## 2017

### *Particle Physics Workshop @ CERN, Geneva, CH*
**Oct 2017**
Ten-day workshop focused on **CMS** at the LHC; selected as one of ~20 participants from India. Attended sessions at the **UN (Palais des Nations)**.