# Karandeep Kamboj

> Former Software Engineer at Google & Amazon | Actively seeking full time opportunities

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karandeepkamboj

Experienced Software Engineer with 3+ years of full-time and 1.5+ years of internship/part-time experience, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Arizona State University. Skilled in backend and full-stack development, with a strong background in distributed systems, cloud computing, and emerging technologies. Worked at Google as a Software Engineer III, where I led the development of customer-impacting features for Google Cloud, focusing on cloud infrastructure and virtualization solutions. Passionate about leveraging innovative technologies to solve complex challenges and continuously expanding my skill set through graduate studies.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ EdPlus at Arizona State University
Jan 2025 – Present | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
EdPlus Dreamscape Learn uses Virtual Reality (VR) to immerse students in interactive, story-driven worlds and incorporates Augmented Reality (AR) elements to enhance real-world labs. It combines 3D simulations, cinematic storytelling, and adaptive learning algorithms to make STEM concepts engaging and memorable, with future plans for cloud-streamed VR to reach more students without specialized hardware.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Redesigned and optimized EC2 Nitro Firmware Image sequential build architecture into parallel processing, achieving up to 85% build time reduction (2hr 20min → 22min per build), delivering annual cost savings of $1.85M
- Implemented resource segregation and process synchronization to prevent race conditions for parallel builds while maintaining scalable architecture that ensures consistent build times regardless of new firmware image additions

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Arizona State University
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Tempe, Arizona, United States
- Assisted Master of Science in Business Analytics students in applying Python, NLP, and text analytics techniques to unstructured datasets.
- Provided project support and mentorship, helping students with data preprocessing, feature extraction, and Machine Learning tasks.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Arizona State University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Tempe, Arizona, United States
- Served as a Teaching Assistant for a class of 150+ Master of Science in Business Analytics students, creating and grading assignments, quizzes, and exams on enterprise data analytics concepts.
- Conducted sessions on SQL, Tableau, and machine learning algorithms, guiding MSBA students to apply analytical techniques to real-world business datasets.
- Held office hours and provided daily support, resolving student queries and clarifying complex technical topics to enhance learning outcomes for graduate analytics students.

### Software Engineer lll @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Led e2e effort to provide support for new DellR650 hardware, offered customers the ability to select nodes of various types for private cloud creation, each equipped with different CPU and storage capacities, increasing revenue exponentially
- Developed a data center network validation tool for Google Data Centers, enabling identification of potential hardware issues in newly bought hardware
- Redesigned and optimized automation test suites and schedules for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), enhancing efficiency and reliability of private cloud operations (creation, deletion, expansion, shrinkage, and post-validation) while expanding test coverage with additional cases

### Software Engineer ll @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Designed and implemented e2e migration of certificate authority from Digicert to Tarsier leveraging NGINX reverse proxy, saving huge certificate provisioning cost and reducing VMware components downtime during certificate renewal from 20 minutes to 0 seconds
- Took ownership of Stretched Clusters feature, enhancing & stabilizing its functionality, and taking it to a successful release
- Resolved critical customer impacting issues during on calls, implemented technical debts for private cloud workflows, stabilized the GCVE stack and reduced production incident count significantly

### Founder @ Khush Rahenge Khush Rakhenge Foundation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
- Founded and scaled a non-profit organization providing free healthcare and education to underprivileged communities.
- Expanded operations across 3 states in India, building sustainable community support initiatives.
- Grew a network of 500+ active volunteers, driving large-scale social impact through grassroots engagement.

### Software Developer @ Times Internet
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Developed microservices for CRUD operations to ensure GDPR compliance for Times of India, enabling customers to manage their data within the Times of India database using Spring Boot, Java and MongoDB
- Integrated the Times of India Personalization news feature to deliver a customized news feed to users, while migrating the unoptimized legacy XSLT functionality to a more efficient Java-based solution, enhancing system performance

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Fidelity Investments
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Banglore


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Arizona State University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Information Technology
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana

### High School in Non Medical
DAV Centenary Public School, Sirsa


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05