Prathmesh Pathwar is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable systems across various organizations. Currently serving as a Software Engineer at Meta, Prathmesh previously contributed to scalability and observability initiatives at Harness. As a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Prathmesh is involved in developing a Kubernetes operator for JupyterLab, enhancing collaborative capabilities for numerous computer science students. Involved in backend development for the Iris Lunar Rover's fault management system, Prathmesh also gained valuable experience as a Software Engineer Intern at Yugabyte, focusing on managed cloud platforms, and at Cisco, where contributions significantly improved the scalability and reliability of a cloud-based SaaS platform. Prathmesh holds a Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology.