# Girish Kulkarni

> Software Engineer @TigerGraph | Go, Kubernetes, IAC | Backend Developer with Strong DevOps/SRE skills

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/girish

Personal Website & Portfolio: https://girishkulkarni.software/

Passionate about automating infrastructure and building systems that scale. Experienced in turning manual processes into code, whether it's Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators, or data pipelines.

Recent focus: Cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation, and making deployment pipelines boring (in the best way). 

Stack: Go, Python, Terraform, K8s, AWS/GCP, Docker, CI/CD

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TigerGraph
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Infrastructure Team

### DevOps Engineer @ Tamr
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Engineered a high-throughput Cloudflare log processor in Go to handle 0.5 TB+ daily data in GCP Spanner;
delivered a custom dashboard that supported real-time monitoring and production performance analysis

• Enhanced CI/CD pipeline security by integrating SBOM generation (Syft) and CVE scanning (OSV-Scanner) in Jenkins, achieving SOC 2 compliance and supporting reliable deployments

• Designed a reusable Terraform module for GCP Spanner deployment across 15+ environments, enabling rapid infrastructure provisioning and adherence to service level agreements

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
CSYE 6225 Network Structures and Cloud Computing
- Managed lab workshops for 200+ students focused on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and GCP 
- Incorporated tools like GitHub, IaC, AWS, GCP, RESTful API, and Postgres/MySQL in the learning process

### Back End Developer @ IDFC FIRST Bank
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
1) Developed IDFC’s credit card netbanking’s backend application used by 1 million customers; supported the application for consumer facing APIs such as bill payments, conversion of credit card transactions to EMI, limit enhancements, etc. 
2) Implemented integration tests using consumer-driven contract tests for interactions between various microservices like payments, accounts etc. to reduce the overall time for end to end testing
3) Collaborated cross-functionally with various teams like product managers, engineers and delivery agents to understand requirements for new features and make the application more user friendly
4) Designed and normalized the database schema for paying house rent through credit cards to implement new user functionality such as past transaction history and addition of new beneficiary, using GO and Oracle DB. 
5) Reduced response time for various APIs by implementing caching using Redis

### Backend developer @ Afford Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1) Designed and coded the backend for the company’s website and the e-commerce website following a monolith - microservices architecture respectively using GO, GIN-GONIC , POSTGRES DB
2) Built and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab to deploy the website’s tested code in production
3) Created and containerized microservices using Docker and deployed them on the Kubernetes cluster through helm charts
4) Part of development team which developed an e-commerce website to buy/sell used medical equipment in marketplace; followed a microservices architecture and authored gRPC proto buffers for communicating between various microservices

### Angular Developer @ Krayonnz (Vedarsy Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka
1) Built an onboarding module, using Angular, for Krayonnz Academy to facilitate addition of new academic institutions onto their platform for easy access to live online exams, fee payment, student reports etc.     
2) Designed multiple responsive web pages using Figma and implemented them using TypeScript, HTML/CSS to consume backend APIs which enabled Krayonnz to collect student data by uploading a CSV file
3) Authored unit tests in JEST to test the code and ensure it was bug free

### Summer Research Intern @ Indian Institute Of Information Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
1) Implemented CAER (Context Aware Emotion Recognition) net to classify emotion of a video stream into 7 categories like anger, fear, disgust, happiness etc.   
2) Built 2 video-stream encoding networks to extract facial and contextt information separately; created an adaptive fusion network which combined the two feature streams, using attention mechanism, to assign an optimal weight for each feature.


## Education
### Master's degree in Software Engineering
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/girish332

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Last updated: 2026-04-10