# Maanasa Narayan

> Software Engineer at Google (Search AI Mode), based in Mountain View / Bay Area, CA. Specializes in scalable web applications, backend cloud systems, search infrastructure, and distributed airline integrations. Prior engineering experience at Kayak, Amazon, Nokia, and Adobe.

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## About

Maanasa Narayan is a Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA, with extensive experience across full-stack web development and cloud backend systems. Holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University (GPA 3.9/4.0) and a B.E. in Computer Science from KSIT, VTU.

Previously at Kayak (Boston, MA, Jul 2023 – May 2026) working on Java-based airline integrations across search, availability, seat-map, baggage, booking, and receipt endpoints, shipping via GitHub Actions with A/B experiments and Kibana observability.

## Skills

- **Languages:** Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS
- **Web & Frameworks:** React, Redux, Node.js, Express, Spring Boot, Astro, REST APIs
- **Databases:** MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite
- **Cloud & DevOps:** AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Cloudflare Workers
- **Tools & Testing:** Elasticsearch, Kibana, Puppeteer, JUnit, Jest, IntelliJ, VS Code

## Experience

- **Google** — Software Engineer, Search team (AI Mode), Mountain View, CA (Jun 2026 – Present)
- **Kayak** — Software Engineer, Boston, MA (Jul 2023 – May 2026)
- **Amazon** — Software Engineering Intern, Seattle, WA (Sep 2022 – Dec 2022)
- **Nokia** — Application Developer Co-op, Raleigh, NC (May 2022 – Aug 2022)
- **Adobe** — Software Engineer, Bengaluru, India (Nov 2018 – Aug 2021)
- **Infosys** — Systems Engineer Trainee, Mysuru, India (Jul 2018 – Sep 2018)

## Selected Projects

- **Stock Trader** (MERN, Northeastern, 2021): Trading platform with role-based access control and real-time financial API integration.
- **Bug Bash** (Amazon, 2021): React + Node automation tool on AWS Lambda for Amazon's Choice badge validation; eliminated ~20 engineer-hours per release.
- **Interactive Adventure Game** (Java, Northeastern, 2021): Object-oriented MVC Swing GUI game with 100+ JUnit unit and integration tests.
- **BeatBeat** (Android, Northeastern, 2021): Music rhythm learning game built in Java.

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## Contact

- **Email:** mnsnryn@gmail.com
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- **GitHub:** https://github.com/maanasanarayan
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