Prithvi Krishna
Senior Software Development Engineer at Zscaler
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPrithvi Krishna is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Vancouver with 8 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native distributed systems and networking platforms at Zscaler. He brings deep systems and networking expertise—C, Rust, Go, Python—and a proven track record of optimizing HTTP/2 proxies, DNS pipelines, and large-scale data updates to improve observability and operational reliability. His work spans low-level systems programming, backend API design, and data-driven performance tuning using tools like Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow. Notably, he contributes test automation to the widely used rust-clippy project, underscoring a commitment to code quality and the Rust ecosystem. Academically strong with top honors from Dalhousie and PES University, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with practical production impact. Prithvi is drawn to challenging infrastructure problems where networking, performance, and maintainability intersect.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 9.38/10, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, 9.38/10 at PES UniversityMaster's degree, Applied Computer Science, 4.27/4.3, Master's degree, Applied Computer Science, 4.27/4.3 at Dalhousie UniversityX, ICSE (Science), 93.6%, X, ICSE (Science), 93.6% at Presidency SchoolXII, CBSE (Computers), 94%, XII, CBSE (Computers), 94% at National Public School
English
Github Skills (4)
lint10
macros10
rust10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-clippy
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 PRs, 15 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Prithvi primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying tests. They created tests for specific Clippy lints, including those related to macros and `let_underscore`. The user also updated existing test cases and made formatting changes within the test files. Their contributions focused on ensuring the correctness and robustness of the Clippy lints.
linterlintrustlangmistakes
pesos/rshark
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Simple Packet Monitoring Tool
Contributions:6 reviews, 36 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
monitoringpacketmonitoring-tool
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