Pawan Bhandarkar
Member Of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPawan Bhandarkar is a software engineer with ~8 years of experience who blends backend systems, DevOps, and frontend UX to ship production-ready services across startups and research labs. He has built scalable microservices and real-time streaming features at TuneIn, developed LLM-powered tooling and RAG backends as a founding engineer, and most recently focused on infrastructure and research acceleration at xAI and Thinking Machines Lab. Comfortable across Go, C#, Python, JS/React, Kafka, gRPC, and AWS, he repeatedly bridges product, data, and platform teams to deliver measurable impact—e.g., adding live-streaming metadata for 120,000+ stations and accelerating component co-design with LLM agents. As a CMU Silicon Valley MS student and teaching assistant he mixes academic rigor with practical mentorship and agile leadership. He favors rapid iteration, test-driven prompt engineering, and observability-first deployments, making him effective at turning bleeding-edge research into reliable systems. Based in Mountain View, he’s seeking full-time roles where he can combine systems engineering, ML-enabled tooling, and developer productivity to drive product impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-University Education, Pre-University Education at Canara CollegeBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at N M A M Institute of Technology, NITTEMaster of Science - MS, Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Kannada, Hindi, Konkani
Github Skills (136)
efficientnet10
browser10
crud10
editor9
javascript9
gui-application9
api9
panels9
firebase9
card-flip9
nextjs9
react9
electron9
java9
typescript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BhandarkarPawan/portfolio-new
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:150 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
BhandarkarPawan/kanban-task-management
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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