Piyush Jena
Software Engineer 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiyush Jena is a versatile software engineer with about a decade of experience spanning full-stack development, machine learning, and systems/DevOps work, currently contributing to Bottlerocket OS at AWS. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and has a strong foundation in C/C++, CUDA, PyTorch/TensorFlow, and data tooling from both academic research and industry roles. At Microsoft he built infrastructure and ML-driven automation that cut PR turnaround and resource costs by ~70%, and his open-source contributions to Bottlerocket include templating and hardware-specific migration work such as NVIDIA MIG support. Comfortable moving between low-level systems, backend services, and ML pipelines, he also teaches and writes about ML topics, reflecting a mix of practical engineering and technical communication. Actively seeking roles across quantitative, C++, full-stack, or ML engineering, he combines production-grade delivery with a penchant for performance and automation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
container10
rust10
operating-system10
kubernetes-pods9
templating9
go9
kubernetes9
devops8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 22 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Piyush contributed to the development and maintenance of the Bottlerocket OS, focusing on enhancements to the templating engine and settings migrations. They added a `toml_encode` helper function for template rendering, indicating involvement in configuration management. Further, they added migrations for bootstrap commands and NVIDIA MIG, which suggests responsibilities in automating system configurations and supporting hardware-specific features. This work spans both back-end configuration aspects and DevOps-related migration tasks.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
KRSSG/plays
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
STP Plays for Robocup SSL by KRSSG
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 11 months
robocup-sslrobocupsslstp
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