Thawan Kooburat
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolThawan Kooburat is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend and core infrastructure at internet scale, currently driving hybrid cloud and cluster management efforts at Meta. He has repeatedly served as a tech lead and co-founder of teams that delivered shard management, scheduling, configuration management, and mobile cross-platform experimentation systems, blending long-term technical vision with hands-on implementation. As a ZooKeeper committer and former contributor to Meta’s distributed coordination and configuration frameworks, he brings deep expertise in distributed consensus and operational reliability. Based in Irvine, CA, he pairs advanced academic training in computer engineering and computer science with a track record of growing team talent and managing cross-functional relationships to deliver production-critical systems. An understated strength is his experience translating low-level systems design into product-facing configuration and experimentation APIs that scale across billions of users.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering at Chulalongkorn University
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Github Skills (15)
database10
thrift9
java9
android9
cpp9
storage-engine9
key-value-store8
ios8
buck8
python8
build-system7
multithreading6
atomic6
sequential3
storage2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
facebook/fbthrift
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Contributions:3 commits in 2 years 2 months
cppthrift
facebook/rocksdb
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
key-value-storedatabasestorage-engine
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