Pankaj Thapa
Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPankaj Thapa is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-availability distributed systems, secure firmware management, and payment terminal software. He currently designs clustering and RAFT-based platforms at Dell Technologies, and previously strengthened VMware’s concord-bft Byzantine fault-tolerant codebase—fixing memory management and data races while improving CI and Docker infrastructure. Comfortable in C++ (including sanitizers), cryptographic libraries, multi-threading, and container ecosystems, he brings deep systems and DevOps instincts to production reliability and performance. His background ranges from resource-constrained smart card and embedded payment development to large-scale cloud-native services, giving him a practical understanding of both low-level optimizations and orchestration. Known for reducing concurrency bugs and hardening test suites, he combines pragmatic engineering with a security-conscious mindset.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (AHSEC), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (AHSEC), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology at Sibsagar CollegeHigh School Leaving Certificate (SEBA), High School Leaving Certificate (SEBA) at Holy Cross High School, AssamBachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Mizoram University
English, Hindi, Nepali
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Github Skills (16)
memory-management10
fault-tolerance10
c-language10
byzantine10
cprogramming-language10
state-machine10
fault-tolerant10
concurrency10
dockers9
testing9
build-system9
docker9
jframe6
netbeans6
swing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/concord-bft
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Concord byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication library
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 reviews, 20 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pankaj primarily addressed memory management issues and data races within the codebase, employing unique pointers and implementing fixes to improve code stability and performance. They also contributed to the project's infrastructure by updating the Docker image, creating soft links for build tools, and handling exceptions. Furthermore, they made crucial improvements to the test suite by resolving data races within the tests.
fault-tolerantreplicationstate-machine
pkthapa/concord-bft
Jul 2021 - Jul 2023
Concord byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication library
Contributions:4 PRs, 381 pushes, 153 branches in 1 year 11 months
fault-tolerantreplicationstate-machine
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