Summary
Pawan Bhardwaj is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance cloud networking and Linux-based systems, currently contributing to gRPC as an open-source maintainer at Google. His background spans infrastructure and security-focused roles at Microsoft (Defender Xplat), NVIDIA/Cumulus (Cumulus Linux for MLX switches), and Cisco (NX-OS Layer 2 networking), giving him deep expertise in network OS features, telemetry, and event delivery. He combines systems-level engineering with a strong track record of shipping production features for datacenter and endpoint platforms. Known for optimizing performance and adding impactful new features, he brings both product-driven pragmatism and low-level protocol familiarity. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs an engineering foundation from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology with practical experience across large-scale vendors and open-source communities.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communication Engineering, 8.55, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communication Engineering, 8.55 at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
12th, Non Medical, 97%, 12th, Non Medical, 97% at Convent of Gagan Bharti ,Uttam Nagar , Delhi
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