Hello, I'm Kaushik Iyer.

I worked closely with Kaushik during his year-long internship at Skima, where he quickly became key to our team. Kaushik balanced working alone and with others well. He handled backend tasks like developing our billing using the Stripe SDK, and the analytics dashboard using Elasticsearch and Sidekiq workers on his own, while also collaborating regularly with frontend, content, and testing teams to make sure everything worked together smoothly. He owned his work, keeping everyone updated about progress as well as challenges, without needing reminders. An important part of Kaushik's growth was learning to code with users in mind, which significantly improved his work quality. He demonstrated strong skills in Ruby on Rails, effectively utilizing ActiveRecord for database operations with PostgreSQL. His optimizations resulted in query speed improvements of up to 70%. I recommend Kaushik for any software development job. His technical skills, user-focused approach, and teamwork would make him valuable to any company.