Summary
Santosh Narayankhedkar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and AR/VR products, currently contributing to the Metaverse at Meta Reality Labs in San Francisco. He previously served as a Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, designing systems to process petabytes of data, and has research experience creating autonomous traffic-monitoring agents at USC/ISI. Comfortable across system architecture, data-intensive backends, and immersive platform development, he blends rigorous academic training (MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Networks) with production-grade engineering. Known for “coding for a living,” he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a knack for translating research ideas into resilient, scalable systems. An understated strength is his experience mentoring and onboarding students and international users, a skill that surfaces in cross-functional team settings.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering- Computer Networks, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering- Computer Networks at University of Southern California
English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Spanish