🎥 Senior Robustness Engineer (Real-Time Systems) | ⚡ WebRTC Specialist | 🌍 Remote-First Engineer
I focus on making real-time systems reliable in the real world — where networks drop, devices change, tabs sleep, and users expect things to “just work”.
While I specialize in WebRTC, my robustness work is not limited to WebRTC and extends to broader real-time and distributed client systems.
- 🛡️ Robustness & reliability engineering for real-time systems
- 📹 WebRTC audio/video pipelines (P2P & SFU-based architectures)
- 🛠️ Advanced debugging & failure isolation
- 📊 Performance & quality monitoring (latency, jitter, packet loss)
- 🔄 Reconnection, retry & recovery strategies
- 🎙️ Device lifecycle management (permissions, hot-switching, fallbacks)
- 📡 Signaling resilience & real-time state synchronization
- 🌐 Cross-browser & cross-device stability
I work on preventing, detecting, and recovering from failures across real-time systems:
- 🔍 Deep debugging using metrics, logs & reproduction
- 📈 Monitoring freezes, black video, audio drops & state desync
- ⚙️ Adaptive quality & backpressure handling
- 🚨 Detecting stalled pipelines and resource exhaustion
- 🔄 Seamless reconnections across network, device & lifecycle changes
- 🧪 Reproducing failures across browsers, OSs & network conditions
- 🛡️ Improved reliability of real-time communication platforms
- 📉 Reduced user-visible freezes and drops via metrics-driven fixes
- 🔄 Designed reconnection and recovery flows for unstable networks
- 🎙️ Increased device switching reliability across browser & Electron
- 📊 Built observability pipelines to surface hidden client-side failures
- 🔌 Applied robustness patterns beyond WebRTC to other real-time features
- 🧑💻 Fully remote & async-friendly
- 🤝 Own reliability end-to-end, from detection to fix
- 🔄 Comfortable across browser, Node.js & Electron environments
- 🚀 Calm, systematic, and data-driven when systems break
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ketan-k
- 🧑💻 GitHub: github.com/Ketan-K
✨ Making real-time systems boringly reliable — not just WebRTC.