Kalyani Asthana
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolKalyani Asthana is a software engineer and MS candidate in Computer Science at UC Irvine with eight years of experience bridging research and production engineering, currently building payment systems at AmazonPay US. Her research, funded by DARPA and advised by Prof. Sameer Singh, focuses on defending large language models from adversarial attacks and improving explainability in NLP—work that complements her prior bioinformatics software projects at NCBS. She combines full-stack development experience from industry internships with rigorous research training, enabling her to translate novel ML defenses into practical, deployable solutions. Based in Irvine, CA, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective from a B.Tech in CSE with bioinformatics and a track record of securing research funding while shipping real-world systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Bioinformatics at Vellore Institute of TechnologyDelhi Public School - R. K. PuramUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
stackoverflow8
pypi7
terminal-app7
cuda6
parallel6
python6
sympy6
numba4
compiler4
cli4
llvm4
command-line3
numpy3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kalyaniasthana/FindingMutationsInDNAAndProteins_BioinformaticsVI
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year
kalyaniasthana/CS271_project_sokoban
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:54 commits, 8 pushes in 1 month
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