Software Engineer

Kavana Hemanth

Chicago, IL 312-***-**** *****************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/kavana-hemanth/ SUMMARY

Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience in software development, cloud automation, and virtualization, focused on hybrid cloud platforms. Promoted within 7 months for expertise in infrastructure, optimizing VM lifecycle management, and leadership in cross-functional teams. Passionate about contributing to open-source projects and innovating cloud workflows. WORK EXPERIENCE

Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois Intern May 2024 – Present

● Revamped the housing website using FastAPI and React, deploying it on AWS, boosting page load speed by 2x.

● Integrated Housing Application using FastAPI to sync data with StarRez, cutting manual assignment effort by 30%.

● Implemented Summer Housing feature using Python, automating workflows and doubling application processing speed.

● Developed cross-functional features for content update in Housing Management via REST APIs, cutting 20% manual effort. VMware Software India Private Limited Bengaluru, India Member of Technical Staff – 3 Jun 2021 – Aug 2023

● Designed & Developed the backend of Self Service Portal for VMware's hybrid cloud using Python and framework GOAT.

● Optimized backend framework through RESTful API consumption, achieving a 45% boost in responsiveness.

● Implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 30%. Integrated Slack for real-time deployment status.

● Presented ML and GenAI integration ideas to stakeholders, directly contributing to a 15% increase in project efficiency.

● Led a team of 5 in Release Management for 41 releases, overseeing code reviews and documentation under tight deadlines. Member of Technical Staff – 2 Nov 2020 – May 2021

● Integrated eight new products into CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, incorporating diverse customer scenarios for scalability.

● Developed automation for VMware NSX-T/-V L2-L7 features using VDNET framework, increasing test coverage by 40%.

● Steered critical release activities like dogfooding, feature testing and bug bash, driving a 20% increase in issue identification.

● Engineered a private on-prem data center using Linux system skills, boosting resource utilization and availability by 35%. Member of Technical Staff – 1 Jul 2018 – Oct 2020

● Designed ~400 upgrade paths for vSphere lifecycle management, cutting upgrade failures by 10% in customer environments.

● Built an E2E automation for vSphere, vSAN, and NSX deployment & configuration, cutting deployment time by 40%.

● Automated complex testbed deployments using YAML and Ruby, reducing execution time of upgrade paths by almost 50%.

● Reported ~100 critical backward compatibility bugs and provided on-call support during debugging & root cause analysis.

● Boosted VMware Core Stack’s code coverage by 20% through expansion of the current automation framework using Bash. Intern, R&D, Network Functions Virtualization, Telco Solutions Jan 2018 – Jun 2018

● Optimized 5G lifecycle management on OpenStack with Kubernetes for ONAP, improving deployment efficiency by 20%.

● Improved VNF & VM allocation with Python, containerized & automated deployment via Helm, cut deployment time 15%.

● Enhanced optimization using MiniZinc and Jinja, improved modularity of functions for parsing MiniZinc output by 30%.

● Visualized metrics across 10 cloud regions with Geoplotlib, refined heat maps & modeled network flows using NetworkX. EDUCATION

Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL

Master of Science in Computer Science Aug 2023 – May 2025 Visvesvaraya Technological University Bengaluru, India Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science & Engineering Aug 2014 – Jul 2018 SKILLS

Languages : Python, Java, Shell Scripting, Bash, YAML, Ruby, C/C++, SQL, HTML, MiniZinc, JavaScript Virtualization & Cloud : VMware Cloud, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postman, ServiceNow Infrastructure Tools : Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, PowerShell, REST API, Confluence, Jira, Helm, Terraform, Splunk Platforms : Linux, Unix, Microservices, Agile, Distributed Systems, DevOps, Scrum Libraries : NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, Geoplotlib, Gephi, BeakerX, NetworkX, Bqplot, Graphviz PROJECTS

NetSpam: A Network based Spam Detection Framework for Reviews in Online Social Media

● Developed an algorithm leveraging ML and NLP models with Heterogeneous Information Networks to determine final labels through sentiment analysis, N-gram models, and cosine similarity, enhancing computational performance by 20%.

● Steered back-end implementation using Servlets and Java Server Pages, and front-end development utilizing JavaScript. Github Repository Issues Forecasting and Analysis System

● Developed a full-stack application with React and Flask, using GitHub API to retrieve data from AI Agent & LLM Orchestration Frameworks, implemented forecasting models (Prophet, TensorFlow, and StatsModel) for issue prediction.

● Created vector embeddings in Elasticsearch, deployed microservices on GCP, boosted forecasting & API response by 30%. AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

● VMware RADIO: Sponsored for exceptional performance in ideation and research on ML and GenAI, San Francisco, 2023.

● VMware ‘30Fest’: ‘Best Idea – Popular Choice’ award for presenting ‘vSUP – VMware Solutions Upgrade Planner,’ 2020.

● National Hackathon, HackerEarth: Consolation prize in “SYND iNNOVATE” among 3558 idea submissions, 2019.

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