Kusha Kumar Dharavath

About Kusha Kumar Dharavath

I’m a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building reliable, high-scale backend and distributed systems across fintech, cloud, and e-commerce. My strength is taking complex systems—microservices, event-driven pipelines, large data platforms—and making them fast, resilient, and production-ready.I primarily focus on backend and platform engineering, and I also enjoy working around AI systems—building APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure, and tooling that support ML/AI-driven features. I’ve supported research teams by creating data-access platforms and visualization tools for large scientific datasets (NetCDF, Flask, Python), and I regularly build backend components that power AI-enabled products.At Amazon, I improved reliability and developer velocity by leading the JDK17 migration, enhancing microservice observability, and enabling SNS Delivery Status Logging using AWS CDK (TypeScript). At Bank of America, I engineered Python + SQL workflows that prevented over $1B in potential exposure, contributing to XVA risk calculations and regulatory reporting.I thrive in roles involving backend engineering, distributed systems, platform work, and AI-adjacent infrastructure—especially where ownership, speed, and reliability matter. Open to opportunities across backend, platform, infra, and ML/AI-backed products.Skills: Python • Java • JavaScript • React • C • C++ • Go • Distributed Systems • Microservices • Event-Driven Architectures • SQL • Kafka • AWS • Azure • Flask/FastAPI • TypeScript (CDK) • Observability • Data Engineering • Machine Learning • AI

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer Ii

   Amazon

   Jun 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• University at Buffalo

  Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

• National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

  B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

  2012 — 2016