Pavan Chikkathimmegowda
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPavan Chikkathimmegowda is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building scalable, reliable systems and infrastructure platforms. He has shipped production software across cloud and enterprise environments, including recent roles at Confluent and Amazon Web Services and a multi-year engineering stint at UiPath. Pavan combines backend systems expertise with practical network-level insight—his open-source contributions to nethogs improved packet capture and dynamic interface display, reflecting attention to both tooling ergonomics and core packet-handling logic. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University and has worked on low-latency analytics and model-inference integration in academic research settings. Known for bridging research ideas and production-grade implementations, he focuses on operational efficiency and scalable architectures that deliver software at scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Information Science and Engineering, 8.73, Engineer’s Degree, Information Science and Engineering, 8.73 at B. M. S. College of EngineeringMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Github Skills (8)
udp10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
network-programming10
tcp10
pcap9
linux8
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raboof/nethogs
May 2018 - May 2018
Linux 'net top' tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Pavan primarily contributed to improving the `nethogs` tool's functionality. Their work focused on enhancing the display of network interface data, specifically addressing the dynamic sizing of the "DEV" column. Furthermore, the user integrated the ability to capture both TCP and UDP packets, along with associated backend logic. This involved modifications to the core logic for packet handling and connection management.
netfilterlinuxbandwidth
pavan02/maelstrom
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
A workbench for writing toy implementations of distributed systems.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.