Nirav Thaker
Principal Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNirav Thaker is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and modernizing high-performance, data-intensive distributed systems for enterprise and large-scale internet workloads. He has led architecture and scalability efforts across startups and established firms—optimizing ingestion pipelines, search/indexing subsystems, and petabyte-scale storage while delivering sub-second, soft real-time SLAs. As a founder and consultant he blends hands-on engineering with strategic replatforming and bespoke tooling, having built everything from rule-engine toolkits and private forks of Apache Nutch to lock-free transaction managers and NUMA-optimized search. Currently at Proofpoint and running CodePurls, he focuses on secure archival and scalable analytics solutions and is comfortable taking deep research spikes into production. Notably pragmatic, he pairs academic grounding in computer science with a track record of squeezing multi-billion document throughput out of modest hardware.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MCA Computer Science, MCA Computer Science at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh VidyanagarBBA Advanced Marketing, BBA Advanced Marketing at Saurashtra University, Rajkot
Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (2)
google-analytics2
analytics1
Github contributions (4)
niravthaker/PyConsole
Feb 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:37 commits in 10 months
CodePurls/mailytics
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 18 days
analyticsgoogle-analyticsemailemail-search
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