Vishal Kotcherlakota
Manager, Infrastructure Engineering at NerdWallet
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolVishal Kotcherlakota is a Manager of Infrastructure Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience modernizing build/release pipelines and improving developer productivity at NerdWallet. He blends a reformed sysadmin’s instincts with strong software design and multi-language development skills to deliver reliable, automatable infrastructure and core backend libraries. Known for incident detection and response, he pairs operational rigor with strategic thinking to evolve systems for scale while coaching teams through change. A refined presenter comfortable translating technical trade-offs for engineers and executives alike, he has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions across startups and defense contractors. Based in Los Angeles, he brings systems thinking from complex C2 and cloud environments to peer-focused, developer-first tooling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoM.S. Engineering, Computer Networks, 3.91 GPA, M.S. Engineering, Computer Networks, 3.91 GPA at University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dishbreak/dishbreak.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jul 2026
Source code for my personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 10 months
dishbreak/tech-presentations
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
A presentation on technical presentations. Written in reveal.js.
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 8 months
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