Garvit Pahal is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across startups and scaleups. He specializes in backend engineering for high-throughput services—having contributed to Dgraph (a high-performance graph database) and built CI/CD workflow engines and consumer-facing apps like perch.app and gm.xyz. At Harness he helped power CI/CD pipelines and at GM Labs and Coram AI he focused on consumer products and AI assistants, respectively, demonstrating a blend of infrastructure and product instincts. He also has quantitative trading experience, which surfaces in a data-driven approach to system design and robustness. Known for prioritizing problem solving before code, he invests heavily in test coverage and refactors that improve long-term reliability. Comfortable across open-source and commercial settings, he brings both hands-on implementation skill and product-oriented engineering judgment.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Step by Step High School, Jaipur
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Garvit primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Dgraph database. Their contributions involved bug fixes, such as addressing retry logic for connecting to zero nodes, and implementing new features like list filtering for regular expression and geo tokenizers. They also refactored and added tests to support these new functionalities, further demonstrating their focus on code quality and test coverage. Furthermore, the user made changes related to HTTP JSON mutations.
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