Kushal Krishnappa

[ABOUT] Production Engineer with experience in building and scaling systems across enterprise environments. Currently pursuing Master's in Computer Science at Northeastern while bringing hands-on experience from managing critical infrastructure at Pure Storage and Mercedes-Benz.

Specialized in automation, system reliability, and large-scale deployments. Successfully reduced simulator recovery times from hours to minutes and managed 9,000+ production VMs with 99% automation. Passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges, ML applications in DevSecOps and building invisible infrastructure.

CURRENT ROLE

MSCS Student

@Northeastern University

LOCATION

Boston, MA

EST timezone

EXPERIENCE

2+ years across

Production Systems

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Pure Storage

[Jan'2023 - Dec'2024]

Member of Technical Staff 2

• Reduced simulator recovery time: 5hr → 10min via Auto Sim Rehab
• Managed one-click updates across 9,000+ on-prem VMs
• 99% manual intervention elimination through automation
• Migrated 1,500+ environments from Ubuntu 14 → 22
• Built distributed systems with Flask, RabbitMQ, Redis & Temporal
• Increased global infrastructure availability with 95%+ reliability

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India

[Aug'2022 - Jan'2023]

Graduate Engineer Trainee - Over-the-Air(OTA) Updates Team

• Built OTA updates data warehouse using Apache Spark on Databricks
• Developed multi-source data ingestion pipeline to Azure EventHubs
• Supported live OTA updates & eSIM management across global regions

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India

[Mar'2022 - Aug'2023]

Software Intern - Over-the-Air(OTA) Updates Team

• Built OTA updates analytics dashboard from scratch
• Automated deployment via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Integrated OAuth2.0 for secure user authentication

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Virtual Calendar

Full-stack virtual calendar application in Java

Tech Stack: Java, Swing GUI, MVC Architecture

• Multi-calendar support
• Event conflict detection
• Timezone management

SEED Labs: Security Projects

Cybersecurity attacks and defenses implementation

Tech Stack: C, Python, Linux

• Buffer overflow
• SQL injection
• XSS attacks
• TCP attacks

Yet Another Centralized Scheduler

Centralized scheduling framework similar to Hadoop YARN

Tech Stack: Python, Distributed Systems

• Resource management
• Job scheduling
• Cluster coordination

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Languages

• Python
• Java
• C/C++
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Go

Technologies

• Flask, Django, FastAPI
• React, Next.js
• Docker, Kubernetes
• AWS, Azure
• Redis, RabbitMQ

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