# Kanalu M.

> Software Engineer @ Duolingo | HMC CS+Math

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kanalu

Interested in observability, site reliability, and developer experience.

"Every junior engineer wants to make themselves indispensable. Every senior engineer wants to make themselves replaceable"

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Duolingo
Jan 2024 – Present | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Observability 👀

### Grader/Tutor @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Claremont, California, United States
Graded peer assignments and tutored for Discrete Mathematics, Biology-Based Intro to Computer Science, Data Structures/Program Development, Computability and Logic. Academic Excellence tutor for Harvey Mudd’s core math courses.

### Physics/CS researcher @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Claremont, California, United States
Studied various topics in theoretical mechanics including the Lagrangian, the Principle of Least Action, two-body motion, etc. for the purpose of helping other students gain intuition about the subject. Created simulations using front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript

### CS researcher @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Claremont, California, United States
Created inter-disciplinary educational tools using Python and HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Built and revised HMC CS35/181y curriculum assignments on topics including ML, computer vision, and APIs. Published a paper in “Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges” and presented at virtual conference

### Software Engineer @ CrowdStrike
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Irvine, California, United States
Worked on the Cloud Site Reliability Engineering team to deploy a custom Kubernetes pod autoscaler (alternative to HPA/KEDA) to reduce computing resource costs. Created Helm charts for deployment, debugged and refactored existing Golang code for greater configurability. Worked on new features requested by the SRE team


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College

### High School Diploma
Iolani School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31