# Mira Kumar

> Software Engineer

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mirakumar

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2025 – Present | Foster City, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ American Airlines
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Tempe, Arizona, United States
As a Cloud Engineer, I was responsible for managing and optimizing internal payroll applications on Azure. I handled backend and frontend development, bug fixes, and testing. Additionally, I automated the comparison of stage and production resource configurations using PowerShell scripts, saving 500 hours annually. I configured Azure metric alerts and service principals for resources to ensure compliance. I also designed Dynatrace browser monitoring dashboards for Prod and Non-Prod environments.

### Project Lead Developer @ Arizona State University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Creating and managing the Marketplace website for Carbon Global Summit on Bubble.io

### Software Engineer @ OPENLANE US
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Managed CRM/ERP applications to handle client requests by developing and integrating new features 
Customized and optimized invoicing and internal auditing solutions using Quickbooks 
Solved workload issues using CRON on Kubernetes which reduced load on the database by 30%

### Artificial Intelligence Research Intern @ Nissan Motor Corporation
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clarita, California, United States
Closely working with the decision-making (AI) team and building software that can compare and provide insights into real-world data.
Building a full-stack web user interface using Python, and React.js that interact with the CVAT tool to perform different operations from uploading videos as tasks and assigning jobs to users for annotations, and downloads the output. 
The final output is used to compare with the planner AI system of the vehicle and measure its accuracy.

### Quality Assurance Editor @ Arizona State University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Tempe, Arizona, United States
Verify and validate documents using screen reading tools like JAWS.
Proof read the documents manually and with the screen reading tools.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Zoox
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Foster City, California, United States
Minimized the efforts of manual testing of the software by independently creating and implementing test simulations in Python on the Tyasta framework to perform front-end validation of the software. 

Designed and executed integration testing and API function call in Python to perform end-to-end testing.

Validated the new software version and the hotfixes before the release on the master branch, worked on the continual release process on GitHub and coordinated with the Development team, and created and managed multiple Pull Requests on GitHub for the new releases. 

Worked in Linux, Windows, and Mac environments.

### Software Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Worked on a Healthcare domain project. 
• Independently designed and implemented an application tool – ‘Easy Trace’ using C# to identify the root cause of login issues faced by users and validated the service flow. Saved 300k$ per year to the clients
• Triage and resolved incidents, and defects in ServiceDesk and ServiceNow using C# .Net and helped troubleshoot problems faced by users in web applications with Splunk and Dynatrace Appmon
• Validated and monitored service flows and API in SOAPUI, Dynatrace Managed, and PostMan, and servers in Splunk and Netscalar.
• Planned and performed code and certificate deployments in PPE and PROD environments on Cloud. 
• Earned Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification

### Trainee @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chennai Area, India
TCS training helped me strengthen my knowledge of Java, Python, and Data structures.

### Intern, Website Developer @ Fresa Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chennai Area, India
• Developed webpages using HTML/CSS, Javascript, and WordPress, and managed data in MySQL database
• Experimented with themes and carried out other development of the website. Improved the security and added additional features to the website using WordPress plugins and tested them 
• Deployed the website locally using XAMPP as the server environment

### Intern, Software Test Engineer @ ENCORE PIERIAN LOGISTICS BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Designed test cases for the software product APOLLO used by the company to enter client details
• Used a web-based Bugzilla tool to detect the outstanding bugs in their product
• Discussed with clients about handling the software and reported the feedback. 
• Attended daily stand-up calls and provided updates to the Development team. 
• Attended weekly sprint meetings and provided presentations on the functionality of the software and how it can be improved
• Gained knowledge and experience in Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Arizona State University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
SRM IST Chennai


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11