Lakshmi Lakshmi Nair
SSenior Software Engineer at Starbucks · VS Code extensions, compilers
- Starbucks
- New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
- 3+ years experience
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- English
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Overview
Based in New York. I work on developer tools at Starbucks. Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely. Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 39 engineers. Plant-based cook and baker.
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Skills
GoCLI designLSPcompilersTypeScriptVS Code extensions
Experience
- Senior Software EngineerOct 2023 - PresentStarbucks · 3 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
- Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 12 engineers.
- Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
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Developer tools benchmark
2025Reproducible benchmarks comparing compilers and VS Code extensions on real workloads.
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Education
- University of Wisconsin–MadisonBS, Computer Engineering2019 - 2023
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