Kunal Kapoor
Staff Engineer at VMware
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKunal Kapoor is a Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems at VMware, where he has progressed through engineering roles to lead architecture and delivery for backup and restore services on VMware Cloud on AWS. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Scala and Python with practical DevOps skills (Ansible, Docker, Jenkins) to deliver resilient distributed services and automate complex deployments. His early systems work includes a memory-sharing prototype for VM live migration that achieved ~30% memory savings, reflecting a penchant for impactful performance optimizations. A 4.0 MSCS graduate from NC State and a VTU alumnus, he also contributes to open-source academic tooling like Expertiza, improving backend models and test coverage. Based in Austin, he seeks to stay on the front lines of emerging cloud technologies, making incremental but meaningful improvements that scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 / 4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 / 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 75.25 %, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 75.25 % at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (8)
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
testing10
expert9
expert-system9
activerecord8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily focused on back-end development tasks related to the `due_date` model, including bug fixes and improvements to its functionality. The user also created and integrated RSpec tests, ensuring code quality and reliability. The user's contributions involved modifying the `due_date` model and associated factories, while also adding and enhancing tests within the test suite. Additionally, the user merged branches and addressed code climate warnings.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
kunalkapoor/MouseMover
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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