About

Avni Sharma is an industrious and responsible individual with a passion for technology and its value to organizations. She is currently working as a Graduate Assistant at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, where she is pursuing her Master of Science degree in Information Systems. Avni has over 2.5 years of relevant experience in the technology industry, specifically in Open Source, Cloud-native technologies, Product Management, Technology consulting, Software solutions engineering, IT strategy, and Developer Advocacy. Avni has a strong background in software engineering and has worked as a Software Engineer and Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat. At Red Hat, she aided in the design and implementation of the open-source service binding operator (SBO) project that empowers enterprise developers to automatically connect applications with backed services on Kubernetes. She also spearheaded 11 software releases by collaborating with cross-functional teams of 10-20 employees, ensuring shipping of robust code on a quarterly basis into the Red Hat Container Registry. Avni has also established and rolled out the container image scanning and testing processes in the continuous integration pipeline for the dev console operator project, thereby improving efficiency by 40%. Avni is a believer in giving back to the community and has been a speaker and advocate for many women in tech programs and open-source talks. She has also mentored 64 participants around cloud-native technologies at the Bit-by-Bit Hackathon, 2018. Avni is a collaborative team player who is always eager to learn and grow in a collaborative environment. She also has excellent communication and leadership skills, having conducted technical interviews for hiring Software Engineer interns and consecutively held intern onboarding sessions for six software engineer interns. Avni holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from The National Institute of Engineering and has completed her I.C.S.E and I.S.C from La Martiniere Girls' College, Lucknow. She is proficient in product management, software engineering, testing, QA, Python, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Integration. Avni is a self-starter who is highly motivated and feeds energy to her soul by learning and growing in a collaborative environment.