Kristine Kunapuli is a product-oriented backend software engineer with seven years of experience building and scaling resilient, high-throughput distributed systems. She specializes in backend Go services, data pipelines, Kubernetes, and observability, with a track record at Datadog and HPE improving performance, reliability, and operational tooling. Comfortable owning end-to-end projects, she mentors engineers and introduced configuration and process improvements that reduced incidents and clarified delivery. Her early work in signal processing and real-time algorithms underpins a pragmatic approach to performance-sensitive systems and statistical problem solving. Now based in New York and working on security-focused engineering at Defakto Security, she brings a machine-learning curiosity to pipeline and distributed-systems challenges.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (did not finish) Computer Science, Master's degree (did not finish) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Kristine Kunapuli - Software Engineer at Defakto Security