Rabin Karki
Engineering Manager at Google
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolRabin Karki is an experienced engineering leader with 15 years building and scaling distributed systems and e-commerce platforms, currently an Engineering Manager at Google in the Greater Boston area. He previously led large cross-functional organizations at Wayfair—rising from hands-on Software Engineer to Associate Director—where he drove migrations from monoliths to event-driven architectures and ensured peak-period resiliency for Checkout and Warehousing systems. At 6 River Systems he built core platform and data teams to improve fulfillment velocity after acquisition by Shopify, demonstrating both product and operational impact. Early career work at Citrix and open-source contributions to the xapi-project show deep backend expertise in workload balancing, VDI operations, and production-grade error handling. Rabin blends strong technical craft with people leadership—hiring and mentoring engineering managers and senior ICs—and has a track record of turning complex legacy systems into scalable, decoupled platforms. He holds advanced computer science credentials and a practical focus on reliability, performance, and developer velocity.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Tribhuvan University, IOE, Pulchowk Campus
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Github Skills (4)
error-handling10
xapi10
ocaml10
ipv69
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xapi-project/xen-api
May 2011 - Jun 2012
The Xapi Project's XenAPI Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rabin primarily contributed to the backend logic of the XenAPI server, focusing on workload balancing and VDI operations. Their work involved modifying the workload balancing configurations, ensuring the correct handling of IPv6 addresses, and preventing copy operations on HA VDIs. The user also made significant changes related to error handling in workload balancing requests, particularly parsing the ResultCode before processing the response. Furthermore, the user enhanced the code by making live VDI migration tasks non-cancellable and addressing an issue involving crash dump files.
xenapixapi
rabink/openpilot
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
openpilot is an open source driver assistance system. openpilot performs the functions of Automated Lane Centering and Adaptive Cruise Control for 250+ supported car makes and models.
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 days
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