Rohan Pillai
Principal Engineer 1 at Alkira, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Pillai is a Principal Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native networking and security integrations at Alkira, Inc., where he has driven BYOIP, ServiceNow and Splunk integrations, multi-segment connectors, and expanded firewall/SD‑WAN support. He brings strong backend expertise in Java, Go, and Python, pragmatic use of PostgreSQL-backed Kafka producers, and hands-on performance work such as caching that reduced API latency by ~10%. A NC State MSCS graduate, he combines systems-level thinking with product-focused delivery—refactoring microservices to remove dead features while enabling IPv6 fronting and new troubleshooting visibility for connectors. Earlier internships at Samsung and Bombardier sharpened his ML/data preprocessing and full-stack instincts, including improving a CNN architecture and building OCR correction and satellite image pipelines. Based in Seattle, he blends infrastructure engineering with practical automation and observability, and often surfaces small but impactful platform improvements that simplify operator workflows.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Nirma University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
cnn-classification10
web-application10
rspec10
vcl10
bower10
classification10
foundation10
rails10
docker10
keras10
django9
points9
science9
rubocop9
python9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rohanpillai20/Rohan-Pillai-Blog-Files
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rohanpillai20/Image-Classification-by-Keras-and-Tensorflow
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Image Classification using Keras as well as Tensorflow.
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
cnn-classificationimage-classifierpythondeep-learningmachine-learning
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