Rokhini Prabhu

San Francisco, California, United States

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Rakshitha Prabhu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building systems across healthcare, retail, and platform engineering, currently based in San Francisco and working at Pantheon Platform. She has a strong systems and backend focus, having contributed to Swift’s concurrency runtime at Apple—implementing continuations and improving actor/task runtime behavior in the widely used swiftlang/swift repository. Her background spans consulting and product roles at Apple and GE Healthcare, blending low-level runtime work with pragmatic product delivery. Trained in information technology and internet programming, she brings both academic rigor and hands-on engineering discipline to complex concurrency and performance problems. Notably, she has experience tracking executor affinity for task priority escalation, reflecting attention to subtle runtime correctness and performance tradeoffs.

11 years of coding experience

Github Skills (6)

memory-management10

swift10

multithreading10

concurrency10

actor-model9

system-design9

Programming languages (3)

C++CSwift

Github contributions (5)

swiftlang/swift

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

The Swift Programming Language

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & System Architect

Contributions:139 reviews, 22 commits, 66 PRs in 5 months

Contributions summary:Rokhini contributed to the implementation of continuations within the Swift programming language, specifically focusing on the task-to-thread concurrency model. Their work involved modifying core concurrency-related files, including `Task.cpp`, `Actor.cpp`, `TaskPrivate.h`, and `Task.cpp`. They also addressed memory barrier and lock management issues in the actor runtime and task group implementations. Furthermore, the user improved existing codebase with additional comments, along with new features to track the executor a task is enqueued on for priority escalation.

programming-languageswift

rokhinip/swift

Apr 2022 - Jan 2023

The Swift Programming Language

Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months

swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift

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