Kishor Kharbas
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKishor Kharbas is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and optimizing large-scale, resilient distributed systems, currently leading platform work at Elastic after a multi-year senior engineering tenure at Apple. He combines deep systems expertise—from JVM and compiler-level optimizations to fault-tolerant service architectures—with a proven track record of driving cross-team technical direction and mentoring engineers. His background at Intel and in academic research on fault tolerance for parallel applications gives him a rare systems-first perspective that informs both low-level performance tuning (including GC and bytecode-level improvements) and high-level platform design. Based in Sunnyvale, Kishor thrives on solving complex production problems hands-on while shaping long-term, scalable infrastructure that prioritizes simplicity and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS in computer science Computer Science, MS in computer science Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (7)
eclipse10
theia10
java9
garbage-collector9
openjdk9
openj98
kotlin2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
intel-hadoop/kryo
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
serializationjava-serializationcloningjavajson
reinhapa/jdk
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:8 commits in 3 years 1 month
proposalskotlinbugfixesopenjdkjava
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