Ariel Rabkin
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Rabkin is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems and enterprise software, currently leading Private Service Connect and private API access projects at Google Boston. He blends deep expertise in virtual networking, cloud APIs, large-scale web serving and proxying with a research background in distributed systems and program analysis (PhD from UC Berkeley), bringing both academic rigor and production-first pragmatism. Much of his work focuses on tools for monitoring and debugging complex distributed systems and on “translation/compilation/languages” problems that appear in databases and configuration management. Known for liking neat programming-language tricks, he favors empirical evaluation on real codebases over formal proofs, and he has a track record of turning diagnostic metrics and analyses into core operational tooling. Based in Somerville, MA, he thrives on jumping up and down the stack—from virtual networking internals to client-library HTTP behavior—to solve enterprise-scale problems.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBA + MEng, Computer Science, BA + MEng, Computer Science at Cornell University
English
Github Skills (3)
trace3
debug2
distributed-systems1
Github contributions (3)
princeton-sns/jetstream
Jul 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:132 commits in 1 year 9 months
brownsys/X-Trace
Jul 2009 - Jul 2009
Contributions:9 commits in 12 days
fine-grainedtracefinedebugdistributed-systems
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