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Keerthana Purushotham◯ ☽ Computer Scientist ◐ Software Developer ◑ Research Engineer ❨ ☼
✧ Keerthana currently works at
Amazon Linux, AWSin the Threat, Security & Vulnerability Management team ,in EC2’s Kernels & Operating Systems org (KaOS) 🙆🏻♀️.✧ As a Software developer at Amazon Linux (
AL), she, along with the rest of her team driveCVE( Common Vulnerabilities & exposures ) Management; i.e., the vulnerability life-cycle across allAWSOS instances, shells, VMs, Hypervisors, EC2 servers (& containers), etc.; spanning distros non-exclusively including,AL12,AL1,AL2,AL2023, bare metal instances, etc., amongst others.
- She works at the intersection of AI, Distributed Systems, & Correctness; exploring how large-scale intelligent systems can be made more reliable, interpretable, & aligned with design intent.
- Her work integrates research-driven inquiry with production-grade engineering.
✧ Keerthana has developed deep expertise in threat modeling & remediation, i.e, detecting new bugs i.e.,
CVE(s) & patching them; across more than 1,500 CVEs for multiple Amazon Linux (AL) distributions.
- These threat detections & patches regularly touched every single one of the millions of AWS instances deployed globally including all of
EC2servers, AWS hypervisors, etc., duringAL’s fortnightly security releases.- Also involved orchestrating automated tests spanning various linux VM instances offered by AWS for packages whose vulnerability lifecycles she’s managed end-to-end;
- This non-exclusively includes packages like
docker,kernel,openssl,nss,python,java,mozilla, etc., amongst all packages seen onAL2023, & more.
- For reference, see
AL2023’s release notes : docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/all-packages-AL2023.9.html .
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She seeks impactful roles where she can drive innovation at scale. 🤶🏻⛄
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Key Links( x2 ) ➤❶ [࿐ ོ 𓏲 ☀︎ ࿔] : See a full compilation of her work @
github.com/keerthanap8898/bio.
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☁︎Resume, Portfolio & more .⎯⎯✧ ˚.☆°｡𓆉 ྀ￮°𓆝˚￮｡𓆡☆｡⋆.݁݁✧˚𓆞｡𓇼𓆝˚𓆟｡༚⋅ ✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯❷ [˖˚⋆. ݁݁ ⏾˚ ˖ ྀ ⋆] : See this Google-LM notebook, pre-trained on her profile @
AI-chatbot.
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☁︎Feel free to privately query it about her work ( no one will be able to see the history ).- ╰┈┈┈┈
☁︎You will need a gmail account .⎯⎯✧ 𓋼𖧧˚°⚘𓃦｡𓃙˚𓃠￮𓃥°𓃚'⚘.𓏲˚𓍊𓋼✧｡༚⋅ ✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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Networking:
𒅒 Find her on
⚭linkedin.com/in/keerthanapurushotham,- 𒈔 OR, Listen to a podcast-version of it all:
google-LM⚭Audio Summary,
- ⚚ ┈⋆ `.m4a` file on drive, made on googleLM;
- 𒇫 OR, check out her other social media:
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Google Scholar🗡️ResearchGate[ Citations & Publication pre-prints ],- 𖣂˗˗˗⋆
Medium🗡️Substack⚔️ Mastodon [ Open-source articles ],- ⚚ ┈⋆
⚭@kp_artses[ Art portfolio ].⎯⎯✧ 𓂇𖧧𖠰ᨒ↟𓃬﹏↟𓂃𓃮ᨒ˚𖠰࣪↟𓃮﹏𓃮‿་༘ ✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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Focus Areas & Technical Interests:Non-exclusively,
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AI System Reliability: Correctness & robustness in AI & distributed systems,- 🌔
Distributed Computing: Scalable, fault-tolerant architecture design,- 🌓
Scalable Machine Learning Infrastructure: Systems reasoning, verification, & interpretability,- 🌒
Program Analysis & Dataflow Optimization: Research-informed engineering practice,- 🌑
Systems for Alignment & Verification: Architecting provably-correct intelligent systems through formal methods, test-driven reasoning, & algorithmic accountability.⎯⎯✧ 𓇢𓆸𓇗⚘𖤣𖥧𓏲°✾.𓅰.𓅭.𓅮.𓅯.𖡼˚↟𖠰✧𖤣𖥧𓅪𖧧⋆ ✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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Career:
She is open to conversations & new opportunities around AI systems research, reliability engineering, & correctness-oriented design.✧ She is a full-stack SDE with expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, NLP, & statistics.
- At AWS, she has worked a lot with tools & services like,
AWS CDK,C,Rust,Python,JavaScript,node.js, most majorAWS tools & services,APIs,containers & shells,load-balanced edge-APIs&Lambdas, etc. She builds high frequency, global, federated, throttled workflows orchestrating async requests, to collect critical threat data as soon as they’re released; to streamline, plus reliably execute engineering workflows.- She’s also tasked with accurately evaluating these bugs, finding &/or designing their corresponding patches from scratch if unavailable- in order to design, plan & prove remediation plans for every CVE, without delay.
- A large part of her work also involves building predictive automation tools for
CVEevaluation, designing scalable cloud infrastructure, & supporting threat detection & mgmt for Amazon Linux.✧ Keerthana’s strong computer science foundation from UCSD, enabled her to develop deep expertise across
NLP,recommender systems,Algorithms & Complexity Theory,Statistics,cloud architectures, etc.
- She has contributed significantly to system design efforts, ensuring critical security information is incorporated into real-world defenses.
- Her niche in
AI,NLP, &computational statisticsenables her to apply rigorous statistical methods to security analysis, threat modeling, & security R&D.
published multiple research articles in conferences & journals like IEEE, ACL, OpenAire, etc., that have accumulated over 53 citations as of 2025, including one in the Patent #US12165286B1 - patents.google.com/patent/US12165286B1.Accuracy is not Enough in Cybersecurity”, as a 30min plenary seminar, (with Q&A) at VULNCON-26; ⭒ ˎˊ˗hosted by first.org & CVE.org in April, 2026, where she will be the
solo author/speaker.⎯⎯✧﹌𓆤༉𖧧𖥧𖤣. ༘༝ၴ( ၴႅၴ˖𓏲⚘ཐི༏ཋྀˎ ྀ𓏲𓇗𖤣﹏𓆏࿐⚘𖥧𖤣𓇗ˎˊˎˊ𓆈ˊˎ゛✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
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Other Links:➀ 🗓️
Calendly: calendly.com/keerthanap0808/30min➁ 📧
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Phone: » +1 360-328-1182 | » USA eight-five-eight_203_8957
P.S.Someday she’ll quit messing with unicode symbols. Not today though. ✨
- Follow her on LinkedIn: @keerthanapurushotham
- IO Web-page version: keerthanap8898.github.io/keerthanap8898
- I’ve yet to set up my other domain
kp.co.za.- We’ll see when the time comes. 🤷🏻♀️