Pranay Kanwar
Engineering Manager, Core Dev - Rust at Google
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPranay Kanwar is an engineering manager and systems-focused leader with 13 years building resilient, large-scale infrastructure across Google and major tech firms in Bengaluru. Currently leading Core Dev for Rust at Google after managing SRE teams, he blends deep operational experience with language-level systems development and a pragmatic “jack-of-all-trades” approach. His background spans SRE leadership at LinkedIn and site reliability/architect roles at Arcesium, Ola and Yahoo, delivering reliability, performance and tooling for high-throughput services. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform packaging in the widely used fpm project, fixing tricky dependency and changelog edge cases. Trained in cyber law and information security, he brings a security-minded perspective to systems design and deployment. Known for curiosity and near-constant positive pragmatism, he favors practical, reproducible solutions over theoretical perfection.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
IK Gujral Punjab Technical UniversityMaster’s Degree Cyber Law and Information Security, Master’s Degree Cyber Law and Information Security at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
packaging10
rpm10
debian10
ruby10
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jordansissel/fpm
Nov 2012 - Sep 2013
Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pranay primarily contributed to the `fpm` project by adding and enhancing features related to package management, focusing on Debian and RPM package formats. They implemented changelog support for both Debian and RPM, added options for pre-depends, recommends, and suggests in Debian packages, and corrected dependency handling. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to dependency parsing and handling of various edge cases, enhancing the overall functionality of the packaging tool.
rpmpackagingpackage-managerlinuxplatforms
r4um/ergodox-ez
Jan 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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