Summary
Ayush Khanal is a Software Engineer II with 8 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and infrastructure, currently working on the Platform and Infra team at Abnormal AI. He has a proven track record at VMware and Microsoft delivering production features, telemetry, and customer-facing fixes across microservices, Kubernetes, and SaaS environments, and was promoted rapidly with multiple awards. Comfortable across languages and tooling—Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, Terraform, Helm, Bazel, Prometheus—he combines SRE-minded reliability with feature-driven product delivery. As a former startup co-founder who built autonomous drone infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and hands-on systems design to larger engineering organizations. A U.S. citizen pursuing an MS in Computer Science at UT Austin, he also contributes to open-source IaC projects, having merged multiple PRs that extended AWS resource support.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Legacy High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder