# Richa Banker

> Senior Software Engineer at Google | Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation chair

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richabanker

I am a software engineer at Google. I received my master's degree in computer science from University of California, San Diego(UCSD). Lately, I have been working in the distributed tracing domain for over 2 yrs. I also have 2+ yrs of experience in data engineering using Apache Spark and Apache Kafka. I love building smart efficient solutions to hard technical problems. My current interests are software development, infrastructure engineering and AI/ML.

Proficient With : Java, Python, C++
Technologies : Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Web Services, Git

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2025 – Present
GKE, K8s, SIG-Instrumentation, Upgrades

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### SIG-Instrumentation Chair @ Kubernetes
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Working on the Distributed Tracing team to analyze distributed systems traces for application performance monitoring and latency troubleshooting

### Graduate Student, Computer Science @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
Specialization in Machine Learning

### Software Engineer Intern @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Worked on setting up a KSQL cluster on AWS for performing ad-hoc queries on streaming client data, thereby eliminating the need for writing Kafka Consumer services for the same. Created a live dashboard using AWS Quicksight.

### Java Developer @ Times Internet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Noida Area, India
Worked on streaming ad serve data to perform aggregations as required and to set up a data lake for offline AdHoc query analysis.

### Software Engineer @ Essex Lake Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Gurgaon, India
Worked on devising solutions to big data problems according to the client's requirement via R, Spark and other technologies.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology
NIT Kurukshetra

### D.A.V. Public School, Sec- 14, Gurgaon


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richa-banker

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Last updated: 2026-04-10