$ whoami

Kushal Krishnappa

Production Engineer | Systems & Infrastructure Specialist

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.

ROLE
MSCS Student @ Northeastern
LOCATION
Boston, MA
EXPERIENCE
2+ years Production Systems
$ cat skills.txt
PythonJavaC/C++JavaScript/TypeScriptGoFlaskDjangoFastAPIReactNext.jsDockerKubernetesAWSAzureRedisRabbitMQTemporal
$ ls -la ~/projects

Virtual Calendar

Full-stack virtual calendar application in Java

TECH STACK
JavaSwing GUIMVC Architecture
KEY FEATURES
  • ▸Multi-calendar support
  • ▸Event conflict detection
  • ▸Timezone management
IMPACT

Streamlined event management with timezone-aware scheduling

SEED Labs: Security Projects

Cybersecurity attacks and defenses implementation

TECH STACK
CPythonLinux
KEY FEATURES
  • ▸Buffer overflow
  • ▸SQL injection
  • ▸XSS attacks
  • ▸TCP attacks
IMPACT

Comprehensive security vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Yet Another Centralized Scheduler

Centralized scheduling framework similar to Hadoop YARN

TECH STACK
PythonDistributed Systems
KEY FEATURES
  • ▸Resource management
  • ▸Job scheduling
  • ▸Cluster coordination
IMPACT

Efficient distributed resource allocation across cluster nodes

$ cat experience.log

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
$ ./impact_metrics.sh
5hr → 10min
SIMULATOR RECOVERY TIME
9,000+
VMS MANAGED
99%
AUTOMATION RATE
$ contact --send-message
LOCATION
Boston, MA
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Form Under Development

Currently building a notification service called Beacon

In the meantime, feel free to reach out via LinkedIn or GitHub!

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