Rushy Panchal
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRushy Panchal is a distributed systems engineer with 12 years of experience focused on reliability at scale, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in Seattle. He has led multi-region resiliency and service-mesh migrations at Airbnb, migrating 10K+ VMs onto Istio and rearchitecting systems to isolate zonal and regional failures. An owner of core infra like service discovery and DNS, he reduced recurring outages in legacy systems and helped accelerate the company’s AI adoption through more resilient foundations. He contributes to well-known open-source projects such as airbnb/synapse and nerve, improving HAProxy config management and adding token-bucket rate limiting to enhance system stability under load. His background blends production engineering, incident leadership, and mentorship—from founding a campus app program at Princeton to leading small teams in large-scale migrations. Outside engineering he publishes astrophysics research and is working on a novel, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and long-form storytelling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Dwight-Englewood SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) at Princeton University
English, French, Gujarati, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
configuration-management10
rspec10
rate-limiting10
haproxy10
python10
ruby10
insert9
tkinter9
user-interface9
devops8
json6
destroy6
global-variables6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/synapse
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A transparent service discovery framework for connecting an SOA
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 108 commits, 56 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rushy focused on enhancing the HAProxy configuration within the Synapse service discovery framework. They implemented features such as HAProxy config validation, including adding tests and the ability to skip checks. Furthermore, the user improved logging and added options to control config writes and socket functionality, contributing to a more robust and manageable system. They also made improvements to the service watcher to facilitate enhanced configuration management.
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airbnb/nerve
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
A service registration daemon that performs health checks; companion to airbnb/synapse
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 16 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rushy primarily contributed to the development of rate-limiting functionality within the Nerve service. This included implementing a `RateLimiter` class using a TokenBucket algorithm, adding rate-limiting to the Nerve reporting mechanism, and configuring its behavior. Furthermore, they added options to disable rate limiting and switch to shadow mode. The contributions focused on improving the service's stability and preventing potential overload by throttling reporting under heavy load.
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