Summary
Aneesh Kotnana is a software engineer at AWS with a decade of hands-on experience building production systems, from CI/CD pipelines to ML-powered data protection. While studying Computer Engineering at UIUC he delivered high-throughput NLP models (99% accuracy at 1 GB/sec) and automated the first fully automated Salesforce production deployment at Capital One. His background spans research and applied work—designing augmented-reality drone controls and award-winning maritime navigation algorithms at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and real-time animal surveillance vision systems in academic research. Comfortable across Java, Python, C/C++, and ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, he bridges research-grade models and enterprise-ready infrastructure. Aneesh’s career blends systems engineering and AI with a knack for shipping efficient, scalable solutions in constrained environments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer