Purvi Kanal
Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPurvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer in Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across startups and observability platforms. She currently contributes to Honeycomb.io and serves as a contributor/approver for OpenTelemetry, reflecting a strong focus on observability and distributed systems. Her background spans hands-on engineering and leadership roles—from CTO and Director of Software Development at Bridge School to solution architecture and JavaScript development at Rangle—so she bridges product, developer experience, and scalable implementation. Trained as an honours physicist at the University of Waterloo, she brings a data-driven, analytical approach to debugging and system design that informs both code and architecture. An understated thread through her career is mentoring and curriculum-focused roles, indicating she values knowledge transfer as much as shipping features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Physics (Applied Physics & Astrophysics Specialization), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Physics (Applied Physics & Astrophysics Specialization) at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (93)
javascript-client10
distributed-tracing10
instrumentation10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
javascript10
corona10
api10
telemetry10
otel10
sampling9
observability9
codesandbox8
sdk8
lambda8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
honeycombio/honeycomb-opentelemetry-web
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Honeycomb's Distro for OpenTelemetry in the browser
Contributions:5 releases, 124 reviews, 81 PRs in 1 year 2 months
bridge-school/bridgeschool.io
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Bridge school's marketing website repo
Contributions:87 PRs, 74 pushes, 72 branches in 1 year 7 months
reactjsreactbridgemarketing
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