Kanishk Saxena

About Kanishk Saxena

Hey! This is Kanishk, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am actively looking for full time Software Engineering jobs. I am available to start from January 2024.Previously, I worked at Amazon, India as a software engineer in Amazon fulfillment and retail website domain and spent my time working with the latest technologies and building Tier-1 services at an enormous scale to provide the best experience to customers WW.In my freshman year, I was invited to work under Dr. V. Kamakoti as a part of an internship at the RISE Lab at IIT Madras, where I spent my time working in the domain of Network Security.I also explored Software Engineering during my sophomore when I interned at CRED, as a Software Development Engineer Intern, where I mostly worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS).During Summers 2020, I was a research intern at IBM India Research Lab (IRL). My team and I published a research paper in the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).My passion is doing competitive coding and sharing my teaching and experiences with others. As a Lead of Developer Student Clubs, a community by Google Developers, I have trained thousands of students leveraging each child’s potential. With this community, I have also been involved in solving real-world problems and contributing my bit for the betterment of our human planet.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Feb 2024 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

Education

• City Montessori School

  Intermediate , Computer Science

  2015 — 2017

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Master of Science - MS, Data Science

• City Montessori School

  High School

  2011 — 2015