About

Sasank Pagolu is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 4 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Twitter, where he is responsible for building monitoring and observability services for infrastructure. Prior to this, he worked at Apple and Qualcomm, where he gained valuable experience in developing safety applications for connected autonomous vehicles. Sasank is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Master's degree in Computer Science. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is highly skilled in Mathematics, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. At Twitter, Sasank has made significant contributions to the company-wide monitoring and alerting system, which is backed by an in-house built time-series database. He has also played a key role in extending the observability stack to support Prometheus-style metrics with labels, which was originally built for plain strings. Sasank has designed and shipped the real-time indexing pipeline based on Kafka pubsub, which has reduced the p99 delay in indexing new metrics from 30 minutes to 10 seconds. He has also carried out the indexing service lossless and zero downtime migration efforts from bare metal to shared cloud. Sasank is highly skilled in a range of technologies, including Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Search. He has a strong interest in software engineering, infrastructure, and automation. He is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is responsible for holding office hours and grading students. Overall, Sasank is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for exploring new technologies and innovative solutions to challenging problems. He is a valuable asset to any team and is always looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge.