Kawika Avilla
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKawika Avilla is a software engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade systems, currently focused on development work at AWS and the OpenSearch Project in Seattle. He has strong full-stack and DevOps skills, from Angular and mobile apps to C#, .NET Core services and complex build-and-release automation, having migrated teams to Git and YAML-based CI/CD. At OpenSearch he contributed to the widely used open-source build system, improving cross-platform builds, Docker flows, and integration testing pipelines—work that reduced friction for releases. His background includes client-facing mobile and web products, financial services integrations, and hands-on infrastructure ownership, giving him a pragmatic balance of user-centered product thinking and engineering rigor. Kawika holds a BS in Computer Science from UW–Madison and an MS in Computing from Marquette, and he often surfaces efficiency gains in legacy systems through careful build and release engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science - MS, Computing, Master of Science - MS, Computing at Marquette University
Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
docker10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
testing9
git9
bash8
python7
yaml7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/opensearch-build
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
🧰 OpenSearch / OpenSearch-Dashboards Build Systems
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:100 reviews, 48 commits, 79 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kawika primarily contributed to the build and release processes for OpenSearch Dashboards. Their work focused on modifying Jenkinsfiles to include OpenSearch Dashboards and configure related build and deployment steps. They addressed issues related to Docker image updates, test configurations, and integration tests. The user also implemented improvements to support version qualifiers and cross-platform builds, enhancing the build system's flexibility.
dashboardsopensearch-dashboardsbuild-systemsopensearchdashboard
kavilla/alerting-dashboards-plugin
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
📟 OpenSearch Dashboards Kibana Alerting Plugin
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
dashboardskibanaopensearch-dashboardsalertingopensearch
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