Kartik Pattaswamy
Founding Software Engineer at PAX Markets, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Pattaswamy is a founding software engineer in the Bay Area with six years of experience building ultra low-latency systems, currently developing a trading exchange on custom silicon. He has deep systems and ML infrastructure expertise, honed through eBPF-based observability work at New Relic and significant contributions to the CNCF Pixie project—particularly operator/configuration management and protocol tracing. A UIUC MCS student and Purdue-trained computer engineer, Kartik combines hands-on kernel/DevOps skills with practical ML experience from drone vision research. He’s comfortable moving between production back-end services, DevOps automation, and hardware-adjacent performance tuning, and often surfaces platform-level fixes that prevent outages rather than just adding features.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Purdue University College of EngineeringMaster of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
golang10
kubernetes10
develop10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
dockers9
ebpf9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
docker9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
cnc7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-io/pixie
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 6 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kartik primarily contributed to the operator and configuration management aspects of the Pixie project. They implemented changes to address issues in the operator, specifically related to NATS pod repair and the use of etcd when persistent volume (PV) mounts fail. Further contributions included allowing the VizierID to be used to get the organization. They also worked on integrating the Mongo protocol tracing functionality and adding a BPF test to the socket tracer.
pixieobservabilitymonitoringkubernetes-nativeeks
kpattaswamy/pixie
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Contributions:75 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 5 months
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