Kush Upadhyay
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolKush Upadhyay is a Software Engineer II with eight years of experience building cloud-native and container-focused systems in the Greater Seattle area, currently contributing to Bottlerocket OS at AWS. He has deep hands-on experience across Fargate, EC2 Nitro, and container OS infrastructure, with recent work migrating dependencies and modernizing build/configuration for a production-focused open-source OS. Kush blends systems engineering and DevOps skills, regularly updating Go dependencies, adding runtime packages, and refining container admin/control workflows to keep large-scale projects secure and reproducible. His background includes applied data work—designing an image-based initiative to help identify trafficking victims—which speaks to his ability to apply technical skills to real-world social problems. A Cal Poly Computer Science graduate and former research grant recipient, he combines academic rigor with production delivery. Peers would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers durable, low-friction fixes that improve long-term maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
container10
go10
operating-system10
dockers9
cicd9
rust9
docker9
aws8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 34 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kush primarily focused on updating and migrating dependencies and configurations within the Bottlerocket OS project. Their contributions involved updating Go dependencies for various components like host-ctr and ecs-gpu-init. They also added a new package (socat) and migrated to newer versions of the admin and control containers by modifying settings and schnauzer command lines. This work demonstrates a strong focus on maintaining and updating the project's build process and infrastructure components.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
koooosh/bottlerocket-fork
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Contributions:59 pushes, 51 branches, 4 comments in 11 months
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