Nikhil Palaskar
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Palaskar is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing cloud-native ML and big-data systems, currently driving LLM inference performance at Red Hat. He combines hands-on expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, GPU profiling (NVIDIA/AMD), and vLLM-based model serving with a strong background in serverless Spark platforms and IoT pipelines. His early research improved mobile touch-based authentication using pattern-recognition algorithms, and he has applied computer vision and CNNs to near real-time perception systems in automotive R&D. Comfortable across the stack—from Java and Golang infrastructure to Python ML tooling—he iterates quickly on performance tuning, benchmarking, and cross-platform validation. Outside work he pursues history, politics and the outdoors, a mix that fuels his curiosity-driven approach to solving hard engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of computer and information Systems, Computer Sciences, Master of computer and information Systems, Computer Sciences at University of Michigan-FlintNanodegree, Data Scientist, Nanodegree, Data Scientist at UdacityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological university
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (24)
benchmark10
benchmarking10
stress-testing10
performance-analysis10
kapacitor9
monitoring7
time-series7
sdk6
java-bytecode6
tooling6
dfa5
java5
continuous-deployment4
jvm4
openshift4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
npalaska/pbench
Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
A benchmarking and performance analysis framework
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 716 pushes in 2 years 10 months
benchmarkingperformance-analysisbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
npalaska/Auklet-Agent-Java-1
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:67 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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