Pawan Rawal
Senior Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Pawan Rawal is a Senior Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, observability platforms, and scalable data infrastructure from San Francisco. He specializes in Go, distributed architecture, and monitoring solutions, and at Chronosphere (now part of Palo Alto Networks) led projects enabling large-scale customer migrations and resilient cloud metric ingestion across GCP and Azure. Pawan has a strong track record in database and networking work—contributing protocol buffer marshalling and TCP client-server features to a high-performance graph database—and has repeatedly delivered cost- and reliability-focused systems such as Heap’s placement and delta-backup services. Comfortable leading teams and cross-timezone stakeholders, he combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and community engagement dating back to his open-source work at Dgraph. His pragmatic focus on thoroughly tested, production-ready code drives measurable customer and operational outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
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Github Skills (10)
go10
database-design10
protocol-buffers10
network-programming9
tcp9
graph-database9
serialization9
data-serialization9
ip9
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hypermodeinc/dgraph
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:58 releases, 342 reviews, 230 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pawan focused on enhancing the graph database's functionality by implementing protocol buffer support for subgraph marshalling. This involved adding a subgraph.proto file, the ToProtocolBuffer method for conversion, and integrating these changes into the query and query testing modules. Moreover, the user contributed to adding TCP client-server functionality, which suggests that they are experienced with network programming to establish connections, handle queries, and parse responses. Overall, the contributions demonstrate a focus on data serialization, network communication, and database functionality.
graphql-serverproductiondatabasegolanggraphql-database
pawanrawal/6.824
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years
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