Mohit Paliwal
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohit Paliwal is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and streaming platforms. He has architected and shipped core infrastructure at AWS—helping build a serverless managed Kafka offering and a Schema Registry—and recently joined Meta to continue working on large-scale backend systems. Mohit’s background spans fintech risk and archival systems at Goldman Sachs, media backup and ML-driven photo services at Asurion, and multi-tenant enterprise software early in his career. He contributes to prominent open-source Kafka tooling like Cruise Control, adding broker-awareness goals, observability improvements, and performance fixes that reflect deep operational experience. Based in Seattle, he combines pragmatic production-first engineering with a focus on anti-fragility and measurable cost or capacity savings. Colleagues would describe him as an engineer who turns complex distributed challenges into robust, observable systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Vellore Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (15)
javas10
kafka10
cluster-api10
prometheus10
clustering10
java10
cluster-manager10
performance-monitoring9
performance-measurement9
performance-analytics9
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
performance-tuning9
logging8
debugging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Cruise-control is the first of its kind to fully automate the dynamic workload rebalance and self-healing of a Kafka cluster. It provides great value to Kafka users by simplifying the operation of Kafka clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mohit contributed to the backend codebase of the Kafka Cruise Control project. Their work involved implementing a new goal related to broker set awareness, adding more detailed logging for the slow broker finder, and fixing an issue related to leader replica CPU utilization when leader egress is zero. Furthermore, the user made Prometheus-related changes, including making the broker CPU metric query configurable, and resolved logging problems in the monitoring and sampling components. Their contributions demonstrate an understanding of Kafka cluster management and performance optimization.
cruisecontrolkafkakafka-clustercluster-managementself-healing
awslabs/aws-glue-schema-registry
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
AWS Glue Schema Registry Client library provides serializers / de-serializers for applications to integrate with AWS Glue Schema Registry Service. The library currently supports Avro, JSON and Protobuf data formats. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/schema-registry.html to get started.
Contributions:3 releases, 68 reviews, 31 commits in 2 years
avroaws-glueprotobuf
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