Swapnil Khandekar
Staff, Software Engineer L4 at Twilio
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSwapnil Khandekar is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems across Scala, Java, Python, C++ and Rust. He cut his teeth at ThoughtWorks leading research and HPC initiatives—designing agent-based simulation frameworks, optimizing radio-astronomy pipelines, and running an experimental Ceph cluster—before joining Twilio to tackle spam mitigation at scale. A strong proponent of TDD, Agile practices and open culture, he combines hands-on backend engineering (Kafka, Akka-HTTP, Neo4j) with systems-level performance work. Notably, he has enhanced network tooling on open-source projects by implementing MBps controls and refactoring intense UDP generators, showing attention to both throughput and code clarity. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a rare blend of research-grade systems thinking and pragmatic product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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Github Skills (17)
udp10
c-language10
qt10
networking10
cprogramming-language10
cross-platform9
react9
jestjs6
ecmascript6
jsx6
semantic-ui6
typescript6
semantic-ui-react6
redux6
json6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dannagle/PacketSender
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Network utility for sending / receiving TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Swapnil primarily worked on enhancing the UDP flooding feature within the network utility. They implemented MBps speed control for the intense traffic generator, and refactored the code for clarity, extracting constants and adjusting the packet sending logic to maintain delay functionality. They also removed an unused import statement, and applied code styling.
ipv4acksendingssl-clientdark-mode
thoughtworks/epirust
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
An agent-based epidemiology simulation framework built in Rust
Contributions:203 commits, 1 PR, 90 pushes in 2 months
agent-basedagentagent-based-modelingsimulation-frameworkrust
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