Sumant Tambe
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolSumant Tambe is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, back-end development, and research-driven engineering, currently building Kafka-related infrastructure at LinkedIn. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Vanderbilt and brings deep protocol and serialization expertise from prior roles at RTI and long-term research work. Sumant is an active open-source contributor—his improvements to Google’s widely used FlatBuffers added move semantics and robust test coverage, and he integrated gRPC/Protobuf test builds to strengthen CI reliability. Known for bridging research rigor with production engineering, he combines system-level C++ skills with large-scale streaming platform experience. Based in Fremont, CA, he was formerly recognized as a Microsoft MVP and often focuses on subtle correctness and performance enhancements that pay off at scale.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at New Mexico State UniversityPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (12)
testing10
unit-testing10
data-serialization10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
cplus10
flatbuffers10
grpc10
serialization10
build-automation9
cmake9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/flatbuffers
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 55 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sumant primarily focused on enhancing the FlatBuffers serialization library by adding move semantics to core builder classes, including `MessageBuilder` and `FlatBufferBuilder`. They implemented extensive unit tests to validate the move semantics and other builder functionalities, ensuring the library's reliability. Furthermore, the user updated build instructions and CMakeLists.txt files for integrating gRPC and Protobuf dependencies, and also contributed to the setup of the gRPC tests within the build pipeline.
rpcmemorypythonmarshallingprotobuf
rticommunity/rticonnextdds-reflex
Mar 2014 - May 2016
Reflection-based type modeling for DDS-XTypes. Map native C++ types to DDS-XTypes type representation directly.
Contributions:95 commits, 114 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
representationxtypesmapreflectionmodeling
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