Kusha Gharahi

Skills

Languages: Golang, JavaScript (TypeScript), Java

Frameworks: Spring Framework/Spring Boot, Node.js, Junit, Mockito, MQTT, Vue.js

Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Git, MongoDB (NoSQL), Webpack, shell scripting, SQL, agile methodologies/scrum

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer Jun 22 - Present

GRAIL - Remote

Scaling and modernization of in-house LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)
Scaled performance of the graphql based "data review" page by reducing data delivered by >40x
Generic message bus and event consumer pattern by abstracting underlying implementation
Contamination check cross team integration spanning all commercial samples
Planned and executed cutover migration from EC2 to EKS (Kubernetes) for several large cloud microservices and all on-prem lab instrument orchestration microservices
Developer experience improvements such as Go server local hot-reload (reduced local backend build/run from minutes to seconds), local monitoring stack, branch cut & cherry-picking process, zero downtime deployments
Aggressively reduced on-call events for the team from several times a week to rare pages
Tech: Golang, Typescript, GraphQL, Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, SQS, RDS), MySQL, React, Express, Terraform, Shell Scripting

Senior Software Engineer 1 yr 1 mo - May 21 - Jun 22

Invitae - Remote

Expanding Electronic Medical Records systems (EMR) integration for lab ordering and Results
Implemented scaling based http/event backpressure saving costs during downtime
Migrated databases to AWS DocumentDB from Redis
Reduced org wide monorepo merge feature time by 50% for developers
Mentored engineers on Scala, Kubernetes, event driven microservice architecture
Tech: Scala, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, AWS Cloudwatch, New Relic

Software Engineer 3 yrs 5 mos - Jan 18 - May 21

Toyota Connected - Plano, TX

Built, shipped to production, and continued to maintain a global Telematics Service Platform (TSP) for Toyota with 99.9999% uptime (TSP - a connected vehicle platform)
The TSP is a large distributed microservice event driven system run on Kubernetes.
Notable platform contributions include:

Participated in several production testing events at Toyota manufacturing plants, helping to test, triage and resolve problems with vehicles.
Tech: Java, Kubernetes, Golang, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, Docker, Salesforce DX and Lightning, MongoDB, CosmosDB, VueJS, Message brokers such as Azure Service Bus, ActiveMQ and AmazonMQ, nginx, Terraform, NPM, yarn, CI providers like CircleCi and Semaphore, Spinnaker (CD), Junit, Mockito, Shell Scripting

Software Engineer 2 yrs 7 mos - Aug 2015 - Jan 18

Invitae / OMMDOM Inc - dba CancerGene Connect - Dallas, TX

Joined Invitae as part of the acquisition of CancerGene Connect in Jun 17
Built and shipped CancerGene Connect, a SaaS genetic assessment tool for over 40 genetic counseling centers, with many patients served
Employee #3 of CancerGene Connect
Built a CI/CD (continuous integration and delivery) pipeline. The automation of production releases across servers saved one full day of engineering resources per release.
Built microservice for PDF and image generation using Headless Chrome built with NodeJS
Implemented two way EHR integration for transfer of patient data and reports
PoC for telegenetics webapp using WebRTC for Chrome/FF via extension
Tech: .NET, JS, AngularJS, WebAPI, ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Azure Cloud (Blob/Table Storage) TypeScript, Octopus Deploy

Software Engineer Intern 3 mos - Jun 15 - Aug 15
Second Phase Inc - Richardson, TX

Developed various key features on the Second Phase Inc website using ASP.Net Webforms

Started SEO practices on Second Phase website such as adding meta tags, getting Knowledge Graph to appear, and getting Sitelinks to appear. As a result, website rose in rankings
Tech: AngularJS, ASP.NET Webforms, SQL Server

Software Engineer Intern 11 mos - Aug 14 - Jun 15

Physmodo Inc - Dallas, TX

Helped develop range of motion analysis software for physical therapists and sports scientists using the Microsoft Kinect.
Created Color Tracking software using the Microsoft Kinect. Features: distance tracking, color tracking with the ability to use an "eyedropper tool" to select colors, ability to track more than one color at any one time
Tech: OpenCV, C#, AngularJS, ASP.NET MVC 5, SignalR, Azure, Kinect SDK

Electrical Engineer Intern - Conrad Leadership Program 4 mos - May 14 - Aug 14

Exelon Corp (Power Plant) - Dallas, TX, Fort Worth, TX

Activities

Programming Mentor Jan 2019 - Present

J.J Pearce Robotics Club - Team 1745 - P-51 Mustangs

Teaching and guiding high school students with FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and First Tech Challenge (FTC)
Basic programming concepts, unix systems, robot controls, computer vision like HSV filtering and blob recognition, open and closed loop control like PID control, sensors like ultrasonic, gyro (IMU)

Toyota Swarm 2019 36 hour Hackathon Winner

First/Most Deployable

EarthcHeck 2018 24 hour Hackathon Winner

Best environmental hack

App to classify recycling/garbage to tell you what bin to use: landfill, paper, plastic, or compost

Open Source

homebridge-dahua-alerts

Provides iOS homekit motion alerts from dahua based IP Cameras - typescript, npm package
5.5k installs

VerneMQ, terraform-datadog-provider, odfe-cli

Education

BSc Computer Science - 92/124 hours completed

University of Texas at Dallas