Abhijeet Kumar
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhijeet Kumar is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with a strong foundation from IIT Kharagpur and over a decade of industry experience across InMobi, Unbxd, Rubrik, and Uber. He specializes in backend systems and distributed storage, evidenced by contributions to Apache Kafka’s tiered storage metrics and RemoteLogManager—work that touches performance monitoring and throttling of remote storage operations. At Uber he progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer, bringing practical expertise in building scalable, observable infrastructure. Known for improving transaction indexing and test coverage in high-throughput systems, he blends deep technical implementation skills with a focus on operational reliability. Despite a compact public GitHub footprint, his contributions to a flagship project like Kafka indicate comfort working on critical open-source infrastructure.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE (2004) Saint Xavier's SchoolB.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, 9.12/10, B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, 9.12/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurICSE (2006) Saint Xavier's School
Github Skills (7)
javas10
kafka10
remotestorage10
java10
metric10
testing9
scala9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
apache/kafka
Jun 2023 - Jan 2026
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 22 PRs, 192 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Abhijeet primarily contributed to the development of tiered storage related metrics within the Apache Kafka project, focusing on areas like RemoteLogManager. Their work involved adding and renaming metrics related to remote storage operations (reads, writes, and errors), as well as integrating a quota manager for throttling these operations. They also improved transaction index handling and contributed to code in the RemoteLogManagerTest. This suggests a focus on the backend implementation and performance monitoring of the tiered storage feature.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
abhijeetk88/kafka
Jul 2023 - Feb 2026
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:134 pushes, 20 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
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