Kavya Kushnoor


I am a Cloud Engineer at Providence, where I transform healthcare challenges into innovative cloud-based solutions. I excel at sustaining critical data apps, harnessing cloud platforms for flawless performance and scalability. I value professional trust and integrity, and secure individual and organizational assets. I streamline clinical workflows, optimize resource allocation, and enhance patient care delivery. I leverage data to drive actionable insights, steering strategic decision-making processes.

I demonstrate leadership and proficient project management skills by effectively communicating technical findings to a non-technical audience, leading projects and collaborating across teams for data driven innovation and continuous improvements through multiple channels, including meetings, contributing to code repositories, maintaining version control and preparing documentation for knowledge sharing and training.

I orchestrate architecture and hardware setup, conduct comprehensive performance analysis, and report our findings. I've also led the development of full-stack API-integrated web applications, empowering organizations to assess customers' software ecosystems accurately. By automating the reporting processes, I've achieved efficiency gains while nurturing a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing among team members. I aspire to create impactful and sustainable cloud solutions that can improve the quality of life for millions of people.


Experience

Cloud Engineer

Providence

I've refined my expertise in crafting scalable data pipelines for real-time analytics, thriving on the challenge of transforming intricate healthcare obstacles into innovative cloud-based solutions tailored to diverse business demands. Within DevOps teams, I've been pivotal in sustaining critical healthcare data applications, harnessing Azure Cloud's robust infrastructure and an array of tools to ensure flawless performance and scalability. I work on leveraging data to drive actionable insights, steering strategic decision-making processes.

October 2023 - Present

Cloud Solutions Engineer

Intel

This is a customer facing engineering role, where I led some of the automation and market research projects. My proficiency is in forging highly scalable and resilient application environments using cloud solutions. I excel in performance engineering, automation, and exhaustive market research, automating performance testing programs and benchmarking processes. By facilitating the identification of workload bottlenecks and implementing software optimizations, I significantly enhance workload efficiency.

May 2021 - February 2023

Cloud Solutions Engineering Intern

Intel

Ran manual linux based tests on performance data generated by Redfish API. Wrote automation scripts to automate tests that gauge the server health based on Rack Scale Design. Documented processes with engineering team based on customer requirement, product improvement and bug fixes.

June 2018 - August 2018

Software Developer

UNCW, Center for Innovation & Enntrepreneurship

Developed numerous Alexa applications that engage with users in real-time. Developed website content as a software service for an education and writing platform, gathered requirements and updated website content as per feedback. Worked on research project in UX, Human-Computer Interaction and interface design, while performing a deep dive on the start-up mentality to derive convergence on cross-platform integration.

August 2016 - December 2019

Digital Technology Leadership Program Intern

General Electric

Collaboratively administrate installation and upgrades of security app in user PCs for employees in the organization. Designed the architecture and streamlined process to break down project into iterative chunks, developed and debugged script to implement the project.

May 2017 - August 2017

Education

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Master of Science
Computer Science and Information Systems
August 2016 - May 2018

Virginia Commonwealth University

Master of Science
Business
Jun 2014 - Aug 2015

Manipal University

Bachelor of Business Management

e-Commerce

June 2008 - Dec 2011

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools Python, Javascript, Java, Go, C++, Bash
Cloud Services AWS, Microsoft Azure
Machine Learning AWS Sagemaker, XGBoost, Pytorch, Scikit-learn, MXNet
Framewroks Django, Flask, AWS Lambda
Data SQL, DynamoDB, Postgres, NumPy, Pandas
CI/CD Github Actions, Circle CI, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
Workflow
  • Contibuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Interests

Apart from being a Software Engineer, I enjoy spending time with my family. I like to bake, read classic books, write short stories and go for long walks with my dog.

In the warmer months, I like to play and learn with my toddler, go out for picnics with my family, explore new places and parks in the Pacific Northwest and I enjoy hiking and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the cloud development world.


Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Containers with Docker, Kubernetes & Openshift (Offered by IBM Cloud in Coursera)
  • Django Application Development with SQL & Databases (Offered by IBM Cloud in Coursera)
  • Machine Learning with AWS Nanodegree (offered by AWS at Udacity)
  • Machine Learning for Trading (Offered by Georgia Tech at Udacity)
  • Exchange Participant in a team of five for “Social Entrepreneurship” at AIESEC HUST, Wuhan, China