Manoj Pal
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Pal is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 14+ years building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems in Java and Erlang, currently leading engineering at Palo Alto Networks after architecting mission-critical platforms at Exponential Inc. He specializes in lock-free data structures, sub-millisecond JVM system tuning, and consensus protocols (RAFT, ZAB, Paxos), with deep practical knowledge of CPU cache, JVM internals, Linux networking, and storage devices. Manoj has hands-on experience operating large-scale JVM workloads on GCP and processing petabytes of data across ad-bidding, analytics, and job-serving platforms that handle millions of requests per second. He also contributed stability-focused fixes to the widely used Ehcache 3.x project, demonstrating commitment to resilient open-source infrastructure. A builder and mentor, he founded and scaled the Bangalore engineering team at Exponential and blends low-level systems expertise with people leadership to deliver production-grade distributed services.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, A+, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, A+ at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
javas10
caching10
ehcache10
java10
testing10
unit-testing9
mockito8
api-design7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ehcache/ehcache3
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Ehcache 3.x line
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Manoj primarily focused on enhancements and bug fixes within the Ehcache 3.x codebase, specifically related to the `CacheEventNotificationService`. Their contributions included serviceifying the `CacheEventNotificationService`, addressing store close verification issues, fixing field visibility in services, and incorporating review comments. The user also added a test case for `BulkCacheLoadingException` and removed an unnecessary store close invocation, improving the system's stability and functionality. These changes suggest a focus on improving the cache's core functionality and resilience.
ehcache
palmanojkumar/ehcache3
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 55 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
ehcache
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