Nabarun Pal

Software Engineer

India11 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom with Kubernetes expertise.
  • Active maintainer and Release Manager for Kubernetes.
  • Mentors newcomers in the Kubernetes community.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Kubernetes-focused SaaS engineer with strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Kubernetes

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache IgniteArduinoCCSSData AnalysisDevOpsDjangoEagle PCBElectronicsEmbedded SystemsEngineeringFinanceGitGithub

About

Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience, and an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team Lead. Nabarun has been an active member of 8 releases since 2019. He is an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee. Nabarun continuously mentors newcomers in the community through various means. He has been featured multiple times in Times of India and other publications for his work in the Kubernetes and Python communities.

Experience

Broadcom

Principal Software Engineer

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Working on vSphere Kubernetes Service and allied projects like vm-operator, aiming to make vSphere Kubernetes Distribution the best Kubernetes distribution in the world for long term as well as bleeding edge customers.
  • [Previously (Oct 2023 - May 2025]
  • Technical Lead for areas in Tanzu Platform and open-source initiatives at Tanzu. Building the next-generation of Kubernetes like Control Planes serving the entire Tanzu Platform portfolio. Key stakeholder of areas such as Control Planes, API Machinery, Authorization, Scalability, Performance and Tooling.
  • Hired through acquisition of VMware.
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

Vmware

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2023Nov 2023 · 1 mo

  • Building and scaling Kubernetes like control planes to universal scale for the Tanzu Application Platform SaaS.
  • Lead and Owner for the API Machinery, Architecture, Code Organization, Scalability verticals of the product.
  • Knows how to build different kinds of ropes and continuously mentors engineers in the team to learn the same.
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Jan 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Senior Engineer in Kubernetes Engineering team for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid enabling multiple features of the product
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

Member of Technical Staff 3

Dec 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Engineer in the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Core team with a concentrated focus on upstream Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem.
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

Clarisights

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos · Remote

  • Leading and architecting better infrastructure components and practices for a highly available SaaS BI platform ingesting billions of rows of data every day.
  • Laid the groundwork for partitioning data and relational datastore to isolate infra downtimes to customers
  • Moved to Terraform for declaratively provisioning infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
  • Moved to Apache Ignite from Redis for a tiered caching strategy with RAM being hot-cache and Local NVMe SSDs as warm-cache.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs multi-fold resulting in increased business efficiency
  • Designed and launched in production a multi-tenant SFTP solution built in-house using open source software
  • Maintained, tuned and upgraded highly available Postgres cluster as a root datastore
  • Promoted better DevOps practices for increased developer productivity
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)TerraformApache Ignite

Algoshelf

3 roles

Software Engineer - Platform

Promoted

Jun 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Building the next generation demand planning system encompassing all aspects of a FMCG planners daily work
  • Engineered the core compute component of Algoshelf an AI based enterprise planning system
  • Designed and implemented HyronML a PaaS on top of Kubernetes allowing anyone to easily deploy their applications
  • to Kubernetes
  • Implemented microservices to coordinate running scheduled jobs and on demand jobs
  • Maintained the legacy code and microservices running our services and platform
  • Authored lambdapool - an open source framework for easily deploying algorithms to AWS Lambda
  • Presented Lambdapool at AWS Community Day Bangalore 2019
KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2017May 2018 · 9 mos

Kubernetes

Software Development Engineer

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos

  • Built a universal data science platform for enabling the data scientists to deploy and scale ML applications
  • Systemized cloud based automatic data extraction and storage from IoT devices reducing development time by 80%
  • Delivered microservices architecture for running, storing and logging scheduled jobs by users
  • Developed firefly - an open source function-as-a-service framework which is used as the backend for various platforms
  • Presented one of my internship projects at PyData Delhi 2017 - a community conference of open source data tools
Kubernetes

Numfocus

John Hunter Matplotlib Summer Fellow

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · India

  • Built an interfacing library to render Altair chart using Matplotlib.
  • The project will help Matplotlib users the ease of writing declarative code and Altair users the flexibility of rendering their charts using the Matplotlib renderer.

Indian institute of technology, roorkee

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Jul 2017Apr 2018 · 9 mos · Roorkee, India

  • Teaching a class of 100 students Differential and Integral Calculus
  • Taught a class of 100 students Linear Algebra
  • Actively helping students in getting their doubts cleared of the aforementioned topics

Models and robotics section, iit roorkee

3 roles

Section Lead - Software

Jun 2017May 2018 · 11 mos

Joint Secretary

May 2016May 2017 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for handling day-to-day operations of the section
  • Organized Institute Open Lecture series
  • Pioneered to organize workshops for school children on Introductory Robotics
  • Technically mentored more than 10 projects in the last two years

Project Member

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Built self-balancing robot with PID control algorithm denoised by Kalman filters taking data from 9-axis IMU
  • Built software system for self-coordinating football-playing swarm robots

Iit heartbeat

Head Of Web Development

May 2016May 2017 · 1 yr · Roorkee

  • Led a team of 9 developers for optimum functioning of the magazine website
  • Innovated upon promotional activities to increase the visibility of magazine content
  • Created new avenues for digital marketing for our sponsors

Gurupriyam innovation labs pvt ltd

Full Stack Engineer

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru

  • Employed full stack technologies for enhancing the experience of the audience in an event
  • Developed and deployed 11 consumer facing experiential products for various businesses
  • Innovated experiential products using Leap Motion Controller and various web API’s like Twitter Stream API
  • Built personalized software interface for a Smart Mirror module which provides relevant information to users
  • Designed a productivity enhancement device for offices to track employee sitting time and remind them of stroll breaks
  • Developed IoT based Water Saving Automatic Irrigation System controller using 555 timer and ESP8266

Team robocon iit roorkee

Software and Control Engineer

May 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs · IIT Roorkee

  • My responsibilities in the team are in the Control and Electronics Department. I with other members of the team look after the navigation and control of robot through various electronic devices. I have been an active member of many projects ranging from autonomous control and embedded electronics such as autonomous navigation of our robots, designing of multilayered Printed Circuit Boards, using Image Processing technologies for robot navigation, using Raspberry Pi for sensor fusion and developing generic drivers to take input from USB devices. Also, I am part of the team's Marketing Department. I am actively involved in promotion of our team and procuring investment for our robotics endeavours.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Lawrence and Mayo Public School

AISSE — CBSE

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Sri Krishna Mission School

AISCE — Science

Jan 2001Jan 2012

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