# About Maanasa Narayan

> Software Engineer at Google, based in Mountain View / Bay Area, CA. Specialist in distributed systems, backend cloud infrastructure, search engines, and full-stack web applications.

## Summary

Maanasa Narayan is a Software Engineer currently working at Google on the Search team (AI Mode) in Mountain View, California. She brings extensive expertise across high-concurrency backend services, microservice integrations, cloud-native architecture, and web frontend engineering.

She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA (GPA: 3.9 / 4.0) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from KSIT, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in Bengaluru, India.

## Professional Experience

### Google — Software Engineer (Search, AI Mode)

- **Duration:** June 2026 – Present
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Work:** Search backend infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and AI Mode capabilities.

### Kayak — Software Engineer

- **Duration:** July 2023 – May 2026
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Work:** Developed and optimized high-throughput airline direct integration endpoints in Java covering search, availability, seating, ancillary pricing, booking, and post-booking workflows. Instrumented distributed tracing, metrics, and Kibana alerting dashboards. Shipped features continuously via GitHub Actions and Docker pipelines.

### Amazon — Software Engineering Intern

- **Duration:** September 2022 – December 2022
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Work:** Engineered "Bug Bash", an automated catalog audit service using React, Node.js, and AWS Lambda to validate Amazon's Choice badge assignments, saving ~20 engineer-hours weekly.

### Nokia — Application Developer Co-op

- **Duration:** May 2022 – August 2022
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC
- **Work:** Built internal services and automated data validation workflows using Python and RESTful APIs.

### Adobe — Software Engineer

- **Duration:** November 2018 – August 2021
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Work:** Designed cloud backend systems, enterprise web solutions, and automated test frameworks.

### Infosys — Systems Engineer Trainee

- **Duration:** July 2018 – September 2018
- **Location:** Mysuru, India

## Education

- **M.S. in Computer Science** — Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2021 – 2023, GPA: 3.9 / 4.0)
- **B.E. in Computer Science** — KSIT, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru, India (2014 – 2018)

## Technical Proficiencies

- **Languages:** Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS
- **Web & Frameworks:** React, Redux, Node.js, Express, Spring Boot, Astro, Tailwind CSS, RESTful APIs
- **Databases:** MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL
- **Cloud & Infrastructure:** AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git
- **Observability:** Elasticsearch, Kibana, Puppeteer, JUnit, Jest

## Connect

- Website: [https://maanasa.dev/](https://maanasa.dev/)
- Email: [mnsnryn@gmail.com](mailto:mnsnryn@gmail.com)
- LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maanasa-narayan/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maanasa-narayan/)
- GitHub: [https://github.com/maanasanarayan](https://github.com/maanasanarayan)
- X / Twitter: [https://x.com/maanasa_narayan](https://x.com/maanasa_narayan)
- Resume (PDF): [https://maanasa.dev/documents/MaanasaNarayan.pdf](https://maanasa.dev/documents/MaanasaNarayan.pdf)