Eric Kalkanger
Software Engineer, System Performance at Pinterest
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Kalkanger is a software engineer specializing in system performance with 13 years of experience optimizing runtimes, libraries, and large-scale cloud workloads. Currently at Pinterest, he leads performance initiatives to make services more efficient and reliable, building on prior leadership at Arm where he managed a team of performance engineers and drove optimizations across OpenJDK, .NET, and critical server libraries. His background blends deep systems research—a PhD-level focus on time and energy modeling for extreme-scale applications—with practical tool and benchmark development used to expose architecture bottlenecks and measure real-world impact. He has a track record of improving throughput and latency for data-intensive workloads by up to 30% and acting as the technical liaison to major datacenter partners. Eric combines academic rigor with production-driven engineering, often translating research prototypes into deployable analysis platforms. Based in Austin, he brings a rare mix of performance archaeology, hands-on optimization, and cross-organizational communication skills.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (16)
golang9
go8
benchmark8
programming-language8
benchmarking8
testing8
interpreter8
perf8
runtimes8
dotnet7
performance-counters7
compiler6
odin6
goplus5
program-analysis5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gtcasl/lwperf
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:70 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
gtcasl/eiger
May 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:166 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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