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Keerthana Purushotham

◯ ☽ Computer Scientist ◐ Software Developer ◑ Research Engineer ❨ ☼

✧ Keerthana currently works at Amazon Linux, AWS in 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 drive CVE( Common Vulnerabilities & exposures ) Management; i.e., the vulnerability life-cycle across all AWS OS 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 EC2 servers, AWS hypervisors, etc., during AL'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 on AL2023, & more.

❄️🏂🏻 She seeks impactful roles where she can drive innovation at scale. 🤶🏻⛄


Key Links ( x2 )

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[˖˚⋆. ݁݁ ⏾˚ ˖ ྀ ⋆] : See this Google-LM notebook, pre-trained on her profile @ AI-chatbot .

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Networking:

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Focus Areas & Technical Interests:

Non-exclusively,

  • 🌕 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⋆ ✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

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 major AWS 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 CVE evaluation, 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 statistics enables her to apply rigorous statistical methods to security analysis, threat modeling, & security R&D.

✧ Between 2021 & 2025, she's successfully 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.

˗ˏˋ ⭒ She was accepted to present her work, "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゛✧⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

Other Links:

➀ 🗓️ Calendly: calendly.com/keerthanap0808/30min
➂ 📱 Phone: » +1 360-328-1182 | » USA eight-five-eight_203_8957
# Category Links
⓿. RESUME & PORTFOLIO www.overleaf.com/read/ttkbttqdtwhz#23974e / 1drv.ms/b/c/0d09da568e931e81/IQBP3oJ0TEdhRbeydrnqZZIFAbRhzzJ80DUWb-e7UIxmaW4
❶. Matrix ( Element ) / Pagure @keepur:fedora.im / pagure.io/user/keepur
❷. Fedora / fedora:WIKI / Redhat accounts.fedoraproject.org/user/keepur / fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:keepur / access.redhat.com/account/57599301
❸. Website ( personal ) / LinkedIn keerthanap8898.github.io/keerthanap8898 / linkedin.com/in/keerthanapurushotham
❹. GitHub / github-Repositories github.com/keerthanap8898/bio / github.com/keerthanap8898?tab=repositories
❺. Mastodon / Bluesky @keepur@infosec.exchange / @keepur8.bsky.social
❻. Google-Scholar / ResearchGate scholar.google: user=tWzF13sAAAAJ / ResearchGate: Keerthana Purushotham
❼. Medium / Substack Medium: @keerthanapurushotham / Substack: @keerthanapurushotham
❽. X ( twitter ) / Discord X: keepur8 / Discord: 747152507184349195 - ( keepur8 )
❾. AI Chatbot notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fe2125af-e6e0-4815-8181-041b267e3b8b

P.S.

Someday she'll quit messing with unicode symbols. Not today though.

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