Poonam Parhar
Senior Product Manager at Oracle
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPoonam Parhar is a seasoned JVM engineer and Senior Product Manager with over two decades of experience driving sustaining and feature work on JRockit and HotSpot at Oracle. She combines deep systems-level expertise—especially in garbage collection, debugging, and the Serviceability Agent—with a track record of customer-facing problem resolution under tight SLAs. Poonam authored tooling like the VisualVM SA plugin, contributed to OpenJDK HotSpot, published multiple technical articles, and has presented at JavaOne, demonstrating both technical leadership and community influence. She has led internal training, hiring, and process improvements, mentoring engineers across global teams. Based in California and holding an MS in Data Science from UC Berkeley, she brings a rare blend of long-term JVM internals mastery and modern data-driven product perspective.
7 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyB.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
Github Skills (11)
openjdk10
jvm10
java10
jsr5
gm3
reference-implementation3
nlp1
coreference-resolution1
bert1
natural-language-processing1
coreference1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
poonamparhar/poonamparhar.github.io
Nov 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
poonamparhar/jdk
Nov 2020 - May 2023
JDK main-line development
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
javajvmjdk
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