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Senior distributed systems engineers in the US who contributed to Kafka, Temporal, or Materialize in the last 18 months and previously worked at Snowflake, Databricks, or Confluent.
54 results across 54 people
1
David Arthur21y exp
Software Engineer at Confluent, Committer on Apache Kafka
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
PythonWeb ServicesSQLShell Scripting+38
2
Konstantine Karantasis14y exp
Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, Apache Kafka Committer and PMC Member
San Francisco, California, United States· 5y at co.Likely open
English (Full professional proficiency)Greek (Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish (Professional working proficiency)Big Data+19
3
🦦 Matthias J. Sax15y exp
Software Engineer | ASF Member, Committer, and PMC member (Kafka, Flink, Storm)
Reno, Nevada, United States· 3y at co.Likely open
English (Full professional proficiency)German (Native or bilingual proficiency)
4
Eric Hotinger14y exp
Senior Principal Engineer @ Confluent - Kafka, Data, Analytics
Washington DC-Baltimore Area· 1y at co.
JavaCSQLC#+16
5
Kathir Kalimuthu21y exp
Director of Engineering, Kafka @Confluent | ex-AWS | Distributed Systems | Serverless Compute | Cloud Services | Infrastructure | Engineering Leadership
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
Python (Programming Language)Software Design PatternsJavaCloud Applications+53
6
Priyanka Bhardwaj12y exp
Kafka Engineer at Confluent
Greater Seattle Area· 3y at co.Likely open
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)LeadershipSecurity+18
7
Zeyu Liu (Luke)6y exp
Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent working on Kafka core and large-scale distributed systems.
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
DatabaseBig DataAlgorithm DesignInfrastructure+19
8
Yang Yu10y exp
Senior Software Engineer II @ Confluent | Building Scalable Storage & Data Infrastructure (Kafka, Multi-Tenant Systems) | CS @ UIUC
Austin, Texas, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
ChineseEnglishFrenchService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)+38
9
Neha Narkhede18y exp
Co-founder & CEO, Oscilar. Co-founder & Board Member, Confluent. Original Creator, Apache Kafka. Startup investor/advisor
Palo Alto, California, United States· 6y at co.Likely open
Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsJavaBig Data+12
10
Vinod Challa10y exp
Engineering @ Snowflake, ex-Twitter
San Francisco Bay Area· 3y at co.Likely open
EnglishHindiTeluguMachine Learning+19
11
Darius Russell Kish10y exp
Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @ Rippling
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)German (Full professional proficiency)Distributed SystemsGo+16
12
Boyang C.11y exp
Co-founder at SkardiLabs | Apache Kafka Committer
Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesRecently started
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)Microsoft OfficeC+30
13
Hanyu Zheng3y exp
MSCS at USC || Apache Kafka & Apache Flink Contributor || Member of USC ACM || SDE intern @Confluent || Ex-SDE Intern @PlayStation @Ziroom
Los Angeles, California, United StatesRecently started
Kafka Improvement ProposalGo (Programming Language)团队合作沟通交流+16
14
Bruce McGaughy32y exp
Vice President of Engineering , Kafka @ Confluent
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)German (Professional working proficiency)Chinese (Elementary proficiency)EDA+32
15
Austin Chen21y exp
Director of Data Engineering | Enterprise Data Platform & Kafka Expert | Cross-Functional Tech Leader
Mountain View, California, United States· 1y at co.
EnglishChina (Native or bilingual proficiency)Salesforce.comSelling+39
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Michael W. Godfrey12y exp
Senior Software Engineer | Building scalable data platforms at Databricks | Python • Kafka • Spark • Cloud (AWS/Azure) | Open to Senior/Staff roles
United States· 4y at co.Likely open
Distributed SystemsApahe SparkLaravel / Vue.js / Inertia.jsData Visualization+75
17
Sai Bhavana P5y exp
Senior Software Engineer | Java | Spring Boot | Distributed Systems | AWS | Kafka | AI/LLMs | Full Stack Engineer
New York City Metropolitan AreaRecently started
18
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Krishna Kishor Namburi19y exp
Distributed Data Systems Architect | Brickster , Data & AI | Spark, Kafka, Databricks
San Antonio, Texas, United StatesRecently started
EnglishHindiTeluguOracle 10g+19
19
Matthew Seal15y exp
Engineering @ Confluent
San Jose, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
FrenchJapanesePythonJava+16
20
Aaron Feldstein13y exp
Data Platform @ Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States· 1y at co.
HBaseBig DataSoftware DevelopmentJavaScript+9
21
Satyam Shekhar16y exp
Software Engineer @ Databricks
San Jose, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
AlgorithmsDistributed SystemsData StructuresC+++8
22
Abhay Bothra13y exp
Real-time Data + AI @Databricks | Co-founder Fennel AI
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Distributed SystemsCommunication+19
23
Emanuel Zgraggen20y exp
Tech Lead | Product Engineer| Building Lakeflow Designer
San Francisco, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
English (Full professional proficiency)French (Native or bilingual proficiency)German (Native or bilingual proficiency)Java+19
24
Chung Wu22y exp
Babysitting LLMs @ Databricks
Fremont, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
PythonComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringJava+2
25
Devin Petersohn17y exp
Engineering @ Snowflake | Cofounder, CTO @ Ponder (acquired)
United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Korean
Dante Lanza14y exp
Regional Sales Director @ Confluent l Kafka & Flink
Redwood City, California, United States· 1y at co.
SalesAccount ManagementSales ManagementSales Strategy+1
Michael Sterr19y exp
Regional Director, Enterprise @ Confluent | Cloud | Data Streaming | Stream Processing | Flink | Kafka
Greater Chicago Area· 2y at co.Likely open
Cloud ComputingProfessional ServicesBusiness DevelopmentSolution Selling+15
Ron McNeely27y exp
Building Secure, Scalable Kafka + Flink Architectures for US Government AI | Transforming Raw Data into Real-Time Intelligence in Motion | USAF Veteran | Mental Health Advocate
Alexandria, Virginia, United States· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Dutch (Limited working proficiency)KafkaKafka Streams+67
Swetha Salunke15y exp
Director of Product for Kafka Cloud | ex-AWS
New York, New York, United StatesRecently started
English (Professional working proficiency)Hindi (Limited working proficiency)Kannada (Limited working proficiency)Spanish (Elementary proficiency)+20
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John Hall10y exp
Senior Full Stack Engineer | Python, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, React, Angular, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Agile Delivery
United States· 2y at co.Likely open
JavaJava 8/11/17Spring BootFull-Stack Development+28
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RoJo Wilson9y exp
Senior Data Engineer | Databricks, Spark, Kafka | Lakehouse & Real-Time Data Platforms | AI/LLM Data Pipelines | AWS, Azure, GCP
Bloomfield, New Mexico, United States· 1y at co.
Charlie Giang7y exp
Kafka data visualizations at Confluent
Austin, Texas, United States· 1y at co.
JavaScriptReact.jsPythonMachine Learning+16
Lokesh Allam20y exp
Senior Solutions Architect @ Confluent | Apache Kafka, Stream Processing | Currently expanding into AI/ML
Henrico, Virginia, United States· 1y at co.
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Telugu (Native or bilingual proficiency)Data steaming+19
Shalini Maripadaga14y exp
Architecting real time data pipelines with Kafka & Flink | Solutions Engineer focused on real-time analytics and stream processing at scale.
Celina, Texas, United States· 3y at co.Likely open
EnglishTeluguHindiSQL+19
Josh Buck7y exp
Staff Sourcer at Databricks
San Diego, California, United StatesRecently started
Technical RecruitingManagementVideographyWebsite Development+18
Brandon Q.8y exp
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Netflix
Dallas-Fort Worth MetroplexRecently started
JavaCDistributed SystemsSoftware Development+16
Carlos Guerra20y exp
IT Aficionado | Ex-Snowflake
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)French (Limited working proficiency)Spanish (Native or bilingual proficiency)Service-Level Agreements (SLA)+19
Mark Weaver27y exp
I bring products to life, keep them running, and measure the results.
San Diego, California, United States· 1y at co.
DevOpsRuby on RailsjQueryCloud Computing+16
Elijah Meeks21y exp
Data Visualization Expert
Santa Cruz, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
ChineseSincerityEndorsingData Visualization+17
Michael Duller20y exp
Principal Software Engineer @ Snowflake | Accelerating Enterprise Migrations | Ex-CTO at Datometry (Acquired)
San Francisco, California, United StatesRecently started
Creative Problem SolvingTechnical UnderstandingSystem ArchitectureCustomer Requirements+49
Rajaram Gaunker19y exp
Principal Engineer I @ Snowflake | AI Agents | LLMs | Agent Parent
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Konkani (Native or bilingual proficiency)Marathi (Native or bilingual proficiency)+20
Krishnan Chandra13y exp
Principal Software Engineer at Ramp
New York, New York, United States· 1y at co.
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Tamil (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Limited working proficiency)Django+36
Kushaagra Goyal9y exp
Staff Engineer at Rubrik | Ex-CTO at Gan.AI | Ex-Databricks
Palo Alto, California, United States· 1y at co.
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Text-to-SpeechLarge Language Models (LLM)+18
Dhruv Goel12y exp
Engineering - Databricks | YC Alum | ex-AWS
San Francisco, California, United States· 1y at co.
English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Software DevelopmentProgramming+24
Ioannis Papapanagiotou19y exp
Principal Engineer @ Google | PhD in Computer Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area· 9y at co.Possibly open
EnglishFrenchGreekAI Agents+19
Naphat Sanguansin10y exp
Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States· 1y at co.
ThaiEnglishiOS developmentFunctional Programming+38
Oleg Kharatsidi10y exp
ML Platforms
San Francisco Bay Area· 1y at co.
Russian (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Professional working proficiency)German (Elementary proficiency)Machine Learning+8
Daniel LaMotte21y exp
just a jack-of-all-trades software engineer @confluentinc; prev @superblocks, @VeritasTechLLC
Wa Keeney, Kansas, United States· 1y at co.
LinuxPerlPythonDevOps+16
Aster Hart8y exp
Staff SWE @ Snowflake • Human Person and Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesRecently started
EnglishLinuxPythonJava+16
Tony Kipkemboi11y exp
AI Engineer • Building Enterprise AI Agent Products & Technical Education • U.S. Army Veteran | TONYKIPKEMBOI.COM
Washington DC-Baltimore AreaRecently started
Swahili/ Kiswahili (Native or bilingual proficiency)Kalenjin (Native or bilingual proficiency)Animal ModelsGenomics+70
Jonas-Taha E.16y exp
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
English (Full professional proficiency)German (Native or bilingual proficiency)Software EngineeringCloud Computing+22
Edoardo Conti13y exp
ML Engineer & Ex-YC Founder
San Francisco, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Weike Dai7y exp
Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States· 2y at co.Likely open
Chinese (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Full professional proficiency)PythonData Structures+18
Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy25y exp
Engineer
San Francisco Bay AreaRecently started
EnglishHindiKannadaTamil+20
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