Alok Nerurkar
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Primev
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAlok Nerurkar is a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, production-grade distributed systems for both startups and large enterprises. He has led architecture and implementation work across blockchain- and p2p-focused projects—most notably contributing backend improvements to Bee, the Go Swarm client—and currently builds MEV-related preconfirmation protocols for Ethereum. Comfortable writing substantial code in multiple languages, he also mentors small teams and drives system-level design from prototype to global deployment. His background spans cloud-integrated storage, networking (EVPN/VxLAN), and d-CDN/IPFS solutions, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on resilient data movement and replication. Based in Mumbai, he combines hands-on engineering with an emphasis on robustness and measurable telemetry to reduce flakiness and operational risk.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Information Technology - Mobility, Master's Degree Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
go10
api10
apidoc10
testing10
metric9
ethereum9
golang8
swarm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ethersphere/bee
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1062 reviews, 95 commits, 321 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alok primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Bee Swarm client, focusing on improving the PSS (Push/Sync System) API. Their work involved addressing flakiness in PSS API tests, removing the collections package and general API cleanup, and integrating metrics to track HTTP response codes. The user also refactored the pushsync retry mechanism, improved the pushsync test cases, and addressed issues related to postage stamps.
golangpublishingswarmbeepermissionless
aloknerurkar/vimrc
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
The ultimate Vim configuration: vimrc
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
vimvim-pluginneovimvim-configurationvimrc-configuration
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