Pranav Thirunavukkarasu
Sofware Engineer - Systems Infra at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolPranav Thirunavukkarasu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, and blockchain services, now focused on systems infra at LinkedIn. He has shipped production microservices and ETL pipelines in Go that supported 130k monthly users and improved blockchain sync performance by up to 75%. Past roles include distributed systems and computer vision at Tesla and open-source contributions to ZCash and Harmony, blending low-level C++ work with frontend JavaScript enhancements. Comfortable across languages (Go, C/C++, Python, JavaScript) and tools (Linux, Docker, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, React), he bridges backend performance tuning and customer-facing product needs. Based in San Jose, he’s driven by a vision for a free Internet and practical improvements to system reliability and data throughput. An under-the-radar strength is his history of redesigning tooling and automation to cut sync and build times substantially, showing a systems-first mindset.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of the Pacific
Github Skills (29)
zcash10
internet10
harmony8
pool8
avro8
schema7
json7
confluent7
blockchain7
rest-api7
event-listener6
backend6
protobuf6
ethereum6
kafka6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
insight-decentralized-consensus-lab/zcash-observatory
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Zcash - Internet Money
Contributions:8 PRs, 54 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
zcashblockchaininternetmoneyinternet-computer
pranavt97/Chatter
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:81 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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