Boston University
MS, Computer Information Systems
Kaushik Kumaran
Site Reliability Engineer · IBM
Education
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering
Professional Experience
IBM
Site Reliability Engineer · TLS Top Performer ’25
- Eliminated 1,500+ hours of annual manual toil for 7,000+ VMs with a multi-API pipeline. Accelerated data retrieval by 93% and reduced maintenance preparation from one hour to under five minutes through a custom Go CLI.
- Co-developed a chaos engineering and regression framework using Instana APIs for deep root-cause analysis. The system helped resolve 30+ critical infrastructure defects before customer impact.
- Architected AI-driven data infrastructure with a scalable Python ingestion engine, MCP server, Qdrant vector database, and dynamic schema handling for context-aware agent workflows.
- Redesigned IBM DevSecOps pipelines around a dynamic trigger architecture, centralizing secret scanning and pull-request workflows across repositories.
- Reduced deployment time per datacenter by 66% through Helm-based OpenShift automation, replacing 23 manual configuration files with one dynamic source.
- Built an API-driven alert-suppression workflow integrating ServiceNow change logic with Instana maintenance windows across global datacenters.
PythonGoKubernetesAnsibleTektonIBM PowerVS
Searce Inc
Cloud Engineer
- Improved monitoring reliability by 40% and reduced server crashes by 50% by migrating self-managed Prometheus to Google Managed Prometheus and resolving 10+ critical configuration issues.
- Executed end-to-end cloud migrations for enterprise clients using Velostrata and v5 Migrate, modernizing legacy environments into cloud-native architectures.
- Improved operational efficiency by 40% with Python automation and infrastructure optimizations that reduced recurring overhead and cloud spend.
GCPDockerPythonPrometheusGrafanaTerraformGKE
Software Developer · Norinco Pvt Ltd
Developed a scalable NestJS and TypeScript backend with PostgreSQL, improving query time by 40%. Supported client projects across the development lifecycle and built an authenticated React Native logistics application.
Software Development Engineer · Magnox Technologies
Designed a scalable React Native EdTech platform that reduced the projected implementation workforce cost by 90%.
Software Development Engineer · My Equation (formerly Tech Analogy)
Built React and Next.js products in TypeScript, improved SEO by 50%, and deployed services on AWS EC2. Supervised a team of 10 developers while tracking backlogs and delivery through an agile workflow.
Research
Geriatric health systems
Developed an all-in-one geriatric health solution with a centralized, authorization-controlled reporting system. Reduced the required assessment parameters by 55%.
Smart-campus waste management
Designed an IoT and mobile system for live waste-bin status across a 250-acre campus, combining machine-learning optimization, visualization, and real-time authority notifications.
Cardiac-risk prediction
Built a medical-data model for coronary-artery-disease prediction with 95% accuracy while reducing required parameters by 55%. The resulting paper was accepted to IEEE ICESIC 2022.
Publications
Coronary Artery Disease Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithms
Accepted to IEEE ICESIC 2022 Conference · 2022Machine-learning research on coronary-artery-disease prediction with a smaller clinical feature set.
Efficient Waste Management System using IoT and Smart Credit System for College Campuses
Accepted to Springer CCIS · 2023An IoT and smart-credit architecture for live waste monitoring and optimized collection across university campuses.
Engineering Projects
Argus
- Architected a multi-layer Kubernetes observability system capturing network and kernel signals through eBPF for real-time threat analysis.
- Built a threat-detection and AI-evaluation pipeline that correlates low-level telemetry with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Implemented human-governed remediation with Cilium and Falco for pod isolation and process termination.
- Designed chaos threat-injection workflows to evaluate detection accuracy and reasoning robustness under failure conditions.
- Delivered an end-to-end platform with 71 passing tests and a React control interface.
Sentinel
2026A LangGraph multi-agent orchestrator coordinating Argus for security and Phoenix for chaos and regression testing.
LangGraphPythonKubernetesFastAPI
Phoenix
2026A Kubernetes chaos and self-healing agent that injects failures, diagnoses incidents, and gates remediation behind human approval.
PythonChaos MeshKubernetesClaude API
Open Source
dcgm-exporter · NVIDIA
GPU fleet observability work addressing a driver-availability race condition and improving MIG GPU profile reporting.
volcano · CNCF
Root-caused and fixed a scheduler bug that left fractional vGPU requests stuck Pending during preemption despite enough freed capacity.
Technical Skills
Languages
Go · Python · TypeScript · Shell · SQL · GraphQL
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes · OpenShift · IBM PowerVS · GCP · AWS · Terraform · Ansible/AAP · Helm · Tekton · ServiceNow
Observability
Prometheus · Grafana · Instana · ELK Stack
AI/Agentic Systems
LangGraph · FastAPI · Qdrant · watsonx embeddings · Claude API
Security
eBPF · Cilium · Falco · Kyverno
Product Engineering
React · Node.js · NestJS · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Neo4j · React Native
Leadership
Head of Web/App Development
Led 100+ members and conducted 10+ workshops for 300+ people.
Technical Executive
Ran AWS fundamentals workshops and built the team site backend.
Web Developer
Built a file-uploader application and a MERN CRM.