Shashank Tavildar
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Tavildar is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience optimizing performance and capacity across major tech firms, currently at Pinterest after senior roles at Salesforce and Facebook. He brings deep systems and backend expertise—from compression tool enhancements (adding an --exclude-compressed feature to facebook/zstd) to large-scale performance engineering at hyperscale companies. Comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives, he has progressed from hands-on cloud and security roles to principal-level performance leadership, consistently turning low-level optimizations into measurable operational improvements. A Master's in Computer Science complements a pragmatic engineering style that values efficiency, reliability, and pragmatic automation. Notably, his open-source work on zstd demonstrates attention to real-world edge cases that improve developer productivity and runtime efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at University of MumbaiDiploma Computer Engineering, Diploma Computer Engineering at VPM Polytechnic
Github Skills (10)
compression-algorithm10
c1710
command-line-interface10
c1110
command-line10
fileio9
file-access9
file-management9
file-handling9
file-processing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/zstd
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Shashank's primary contribution involved implementing a new feature to exclude precompressed files from compression using the `zstd` tool. This included modifying the command-line interface to accept the `--exclude-compressed` flag, adding logic to identify precompressed files, and integrating this functionality into the compression workflow. The user also updated tests to ensure the correct behavior of the new flag. This work directly enhances the flexibility and efficiency of the `zstd` compression tool.
deflatezstandardbzip2compressionzstd
osic/ref-impl-kolla
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:220 commits, 1 PR, 236 pushes in 3 months
deploymentkolladocker
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