About
I'm a Graduate Student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prior to pursuing graduate studies at UW Madison, I worked at Cisco Systems as a Software Engineer for 3 years. I completed my bachelor’s at IIT Kharagpur, India where I worked with Prof. Vivek Dixit as part of my undergraduate thesis. I originally hail from the city of Vijayawada, India.
Graduate Student & Software Engineer
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- City: Madison, USA
- Degree: Masters
- Email: kkaushik@wisc.edu
My interests include buidling Interactive Systems, Data Visualization and Software Engineering.
Professional Experience
Software Engineer III, Cisco Systems
2020 - 2021
Bangalore, India
- Worked on developing next generation consoles for Cisco Umbrella Partners, a cloud-delivered enterprise network securitywhich provides users with a first line of defense against cyber security threats
- Optimized the billing infrastructure and reduced the execution time of billing job from 180 minutes to 10 mins
- Redesigned the partner consoles codebase, while collaborating across teams to integrate multiple features.
- Solely responsible for making Partner Engineering team 100% SOC2 compliant.
Software Engineer II, Cisco Systems
2017 - 2019
Bangalore, India
- Worked on developing, Cisco "CQE", a SaaS-based platform for automation development of routing platforms.
- Developed numerous services that enabled real time scheduling, monitoring and reporting of automated tests.
- Solely responsible for developing an algorithm to schedule the jobs submitted through "CQE", maximizing the useof available Cisco routers
- Unilaterally developed statistics infrastructure which ingests data in real time from "CQE" execution workflow.
- Developed a web application to monitor the health of Cisco IOS-XR daily image builds.
Summer Intern, Mentor Graphics
2016 - 2016
Noida, India
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
2021 - Present
University of Wisconsin, Madison , WI
Teaching Assistant: Computer Networks
Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Algorithms
Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Electronics
2013 - 2017
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
Micro-Specialization in Embedded Wireless Systems
Coursework: Data Structures, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Control Systems, Probability and Statistics
Skills
I've have got some skills.