Punya Biswal
Engineer at Lumaril
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPunya Biswal is an experienced engineering leader and hands-on engineer with 16 years building scalable, cloud-native systems and developer platforms across startups and major tech firms. He founded and led ASAPP’s Foundations Engineering team—growing it to 20 engineers across NYC, SF, and Buenos Aires—and later served as an Engineering Manager at Google and CTO at TetraScience, blending SRE, data engineering, and solutions architecture. Punya’s work spans production systems, microservices, CI/CD, and observability; he’s an active OpenTelemetry contributor who refactored Go APIs and improved Google Cloud exporters to make telemetry more modular and testable. Known for recruiting and mentoring diverse teams, he also drove platform transitions at Palantir (microservices, Spark adoption) and introduced key technologies like Kubernetes and TypeScript at scale. Based in Boston with an MIT background and deep research roots, he mixes rigorous academic training with pragmatic system design and a penchant for refactoring legacy infra into maintainable, high-performance components.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD candidate Computer Science and Engineering, PhD candidate Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonSB MEng EECS Math, SB MEng EECS Math at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)High School, High School at Delhi Public School
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
google-cloud-platform10
tracer10
exporter10
gcp10
go10
opentelemetry10
exports10
trace10
api-design9
testing9
apim9
metric9
api9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 8 commits, 29 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Punya's contributions primarily involve refactoring and reorganizing the OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK. They restructured the API into Go modules based on stability and dependencies. The user added functionalities like the `Keys()` method to the `propagation.TextMapCarrier` interface and made the `oteltest.SpanRecorder` a concrete type. These changes aimed at improving the project's modularity and testability.
golangapitracingsdkobservability
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 12 commits, 26 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Punya's contributions primarily revolve around the Google Cloud exporter within the OpenTelemetry Collector. They focused on enhancing the exporter's functionality, including handling semantic conventions related to cloud availability zones. The user also addressed issues like spammy errors related to time series data, upgraded dependencies, and refactored existing code to improve the exporter's performance and maintainability. Furthermore, the user was also responsible for updating the exporter to use the latest versions of Google Cloud Trace and other dependencies.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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