Ishaan Kohli

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Proven track record of delivering outstanding results.
Successfully integrated metrics pipeline into WhatsApp Web.
Conceptualized new types of ransomware attacks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentJavascriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsKubernetesAws

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)ProgrammingReact NativeBack-End Web DevelopmentHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)React.jsTypeScriptOperating SystemsransomwareThreat ModelingSoftware SystemsFile SystemsGrafanaTeam LeadershipTerraform

About

A dynamic and results-driven software engineer with a passion for creating innovative solutions and driving business success. I bring expertise in a wide range of technologies including Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.JS, Angular, AWS, and Kubernetes. I have a proven track record of delivering outstanding results, demonstrated by my time at VMware as a MTS 2 and Intern, where I led initiatives to reduce costs, improve performance, and streamline processes. During my time as a software engineer intern at Meta, I successfully integrated and enhanced a cross-platform metrics pipeline into WhatsApp Web, saving employee hours and reducing metrics drop rate. In addition to my industry experience, I hold a MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As a research assistant, I conceptualized and researched new types of zero day ransomware attacks, showcasing my ability to think outside the box and stay ahead of the curve. With a keen eye for detail and a drive for excellence, I am eager to bring my skills and expertise to a new challenge. Let's connect and see how we can work together to achieve great things!

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Yellowbrick data

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Apr 2025 – Dec 2025 · 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Go (Programming Language)Software Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Go (Programming Language)Software Development

University of wisconsin-madison

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

ProgrammingSoftware Development

Graduate Research Assistant

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Conceptualized 3 new types of zero day attacks on data in motion and hardware devices after researching on the threat landscape of ransomware. Worked under the mentorship of Prof. Barton Miller.

ProgrammingDistributed SystemsOperating SystemsransomwareThreat ModelingSoftware Systems+1

Vmware

3 roles

Member of Technical Staff 2

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos

Slashed the access request SLA from 2 days to < 10 minutes by implementing a Java based access manager software using Spring
Boot to provide instant and temporary time based access to AWS.
Designed a REST based feature to change run-time flags and an internal software on NodeJS to change flags across the fleet of wave-
front clusters, making configuration changes 90% faster.
Collaborated in a team of 4 to accelerate the EKS version upgrade duration from 1 day to 8 hours by adding features to support target-
ted and parallel EKS node group roll-out (github.com/hellofresh/eks-rolling-update).
Spearheaded a global team to move VMware’s 1st cloud service component on ARM based Graviton 2 EC2 instance types by AWS
which led to 30% better CPU consumption and 20% lesser cost.
Facilitated the design of building multi architecture docker container images to cut DevOps(CI/CD) pipeline time by 50%.
Revamped the upgrade/migration automation for RDS instances by designing Ansible scripts and Jenkins job, cutting down maintenance windows to 1 hour
Drove initiatives as a technical leader for the Kubernetes / EKS infrastructure on AWS resulting in 70% cost reduction in test environments, almost 100% monitoring coverage and single click infrastructure deployment.

GrafanaTeam LeadershipProgrammingNode.jsTerraformAmazon EC2+23

Member Of Technical Staff

Jul 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

ProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentJava Virtual Machine (JVM)Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos

Developed a tracing based monitoring software on NodeJS for a distributed actor based framework leading to increased visibility and 5 critical bug fixes in the framework.
Collaborated with a Principal Engineer to conceive a greedy algorithm based on PageRank of actors in a network trace to optimize
actor placements across systems. New placements reduced request time by 50% (github.com/zgeorge2/RAD-Squared).

ProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentJava Virtual Machine (JVM)Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)