Bobby Porwal
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBobby Porwal is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bellevue, WA with 11 years of experience building large-scale web systems and production ML/AI tooling. He has progressed through senior engineering roles at Meta and Google after formative platform work at AWS and Expedia, delivering reliable backend services and distributed systems. Bobby contributes to open-source security tooling—adding enclave host call support to Google's Asylo project—demonstrating hands-on systems expertise beyond typical web stacks. He balances deep systems programming (file and process syscalls in enclave contexts) with product-focused engineering at hyperscale companies. Known for translating low-level improvements into broader platform capabilities, he brings both pragmatic shipping velocity and an eye for foundational infrastructure robustness. A Cornell CS graduate, he prefers solving hard integration and scale problems that surface at the intersection of security, systems, and ML.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell UniversityInterlake High School
English, Hindi, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
cl10
system-calls10
filesystem10
c-language10
el10
ncl10
cprogramming-language10
file-operations10
fileio10
conclave10
enclave10
security9
concurrency8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
google/asylo
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
An open and flexible framework for developing enclave applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bobby contributed to the implementation of various host calls within the Asylo framework, including file system operations like ftruncate, fsync, and listen. They also implemented system-related calls such as getppid, setsid, and sched_yield. The user's work involved modifying test files and header files, integrating these new functionalities into the enclave environment. These changes enhanced the framework's capabilities.
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteeflexible-frameworkconfidential-computing
nporwal/missing_word_locator
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
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