# Kushal Malani > Highly Skilled in Software Development | Full Stack Dev | Microservices | Kubernetes | Staff Software Engineer at Astronomer Inc. Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kushalmalani ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Astronomer Jan 2020 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer - Backend @ Zume Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View ● Developing Backend APIs using NodeJS, TypeScript and PostgreSQL ● Writing unit, integration and E2E test cases using Mocha, Chai, Sinon ● Building an Alert service to generate alerts to manage timely deliveries ● Management of multiple production deployments and log monitoring ● Performing real-time analysis for Zume platform API error rate to mitigate production issues ### Member Of Technical Staff @ ColorTokens, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Responsible for building Backend APIs using Node JS, Meteor JS, and MongoDB. ● Scripting for Health Monitoring of all ColorTokens components. ● Managing auto start of components for High Availability and scaling of applications. ● Developing micro-services using Docker and orchestrating via Kubernetes. ● Building a tool to facilitate easy deployment of ColorTokens Security Platform on various cloud environments. ### Software Engineer @ People Dock Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Hyderabad Area, India ● Worked on Development of Android Applications. Developed an Android app called "DRAWFT", that lets users communicate using drawings. ● Responsibilities included writing ​Java​ code for development, designing the application interface and testing in a real-time environment (Mobile Devices). ● Handling Firebase Backend and using monitoring tools like Flurry and Loggly. ● Used Git(Bitbucket) to push code daily and wrote queries to store and retrieve data from SQLite DB. ### Associate System Engineer @ IBM Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India ★Project Disconnected: ● Worked as an Application Developer for the project "Disconnected"​ - that runs the heavy IBM Pricing Configurator application in offline mode. ● My responsibilities included writing Java technology stack, managing AS Java Server, working with CSV files and JUnit testing on the application ● Collaborating with developers from USA, India and Philippines for development ★Project Unica: ● Worked as Quality Analyst for Leads and Platform teams for IBM Marketing product called “UNICA”. ● My work involved deploying multiple versions of the product on multiple stacks(OS + Application Sever + DB) and testing on all browsers. ● Worked on various technology stacks that included IBM Websphere, Oracle Weblogic application servers and Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle databases and RHEL, Windows, AIX operating systems ### Cloud Computing Research Intern @ Drishtee Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Noida Area, India ● Summer Internship at Drishtee - A Social based company which works to enhance the rural communities. The project was to find a suitable cloud provider and move their applications from in-house servers to the cloud. ● Our Worked involved dealing with various cloud providers and negotiate a plan suitable to host their applications. ● Worked in teams with people from various countries like USA, France, China, Tanzania etc. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering San José State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science and Engineering Amrita School Of Engineering Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### High School St Marks Progresive School Jan 1994 – Jan 2006 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kushalmalani --- Source: https://flows.cv/kushalmalani JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kushalmalani/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22