Paul Cavallaro
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Cavallaro is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and search infrastructure. He has led core engineering work at Google on search infrastructure and distributed filesystems, following prior roles at Facebook (in-memory monitoring storage, HHVM/Hack) and systems work at Oscar Insurance. Comfortable across the stack, he has designed and operated services backed by Hadoop, HBase, ZooKeeper and MySQL, and has hands-on experience with both low-latency in-memory systems and durable storage. His career blends research-caliber systems thinking from Princeton CS with pragmatic production engineering at major tech companies. He maintains a technical blog (paulcavallaro.com), reflecting a habit of documenting hard-won insights that are not obvious from titles alone. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs deep systems expertise with durable operational judgment.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (68)
java10
python9
python-client9
streaming9
scala9
kafka9
apache-kafka9
rust8
monorepo8
django-apps8
monitoring8
cpp8
optimization8
duplicates8
instrumentation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
paulcavallaro/systems-programming
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Examples of common systems programming optimizations
Contributions:34 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
system-programmingcppcplusplussystems-programmingoptimization
paulcavallaro/ptcc
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:151 commits, 147 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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