Pankit Thapar
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPankit Thapar is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building AI infrastructure, distributed systems, and cloud platforms, currently leading Elastic Compute platform efforts at Meta to harness idle datacenter capacity. He has deep expertise in container infrastructure and lifecycle management from multi-year leadership roles at LinkedIn and Nutanix, where he led Kubernetes-based PaaS and container runtime work. Pankit combines systems-level engineering (runc, CRI, orchestration) with practical efficiency optimizations across large-scale fleets, and has a strong background in performance-critical C/C++ and distributed systems from earlier roles at Amazon and academic research. He brings a track record of shipping production-grade platforms that span edge, cloud, and ML model lifecycle management, and is comfortable driving both technical strategy and hands-on implementation. A University of Michigan MS graduate with top grades, he often operates where low-level performance tuning meets large-scale orchestration—a pragmatic engineer who bridges research-quality rigor with production demands.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at University of MichiganB.E., Computer science, 77.35, B.E., Computer science, 77.35 at Delhi College of Engineering
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Github Skills (43)
docker10
seccomp10
ecosystem10
specification10
golang10
spawning10
amazon10
bootstrap9
container9
podman9
moby9
assemble9
python-requests9
go9
runc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pankit/runc
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 days
containersruncdockercli-toolscli
pankit/machine-stats-dbus
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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