Abhishek Kapatkar
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Kapatkar is a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix with 14 years of experience building developer-facing data platform tools that boost practitioner productivity. He defines long-term technical strategy and leads cross-team initiatives to simplify complex data workflows, while also mentoring engineers and shipping frameworks and tooling. Based in San Francisco, his background spans product engineering, startups, and nonprofit data leadership—he co-founded Datathletics and led the DataKind SF chapter, signaling a blend of entrepreneurial drive and civic-minded data work. An active contributor to open-source big-data tooling, he’s worked on the front-end for Netflix’s Genie orchestration project, bringing practical UI improvements to distributed data job management.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Computer Science, Data Science Computer Science at General AssemblyMasters Management Information System, Masters Management Information System at University at BuffaloBachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (10)
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uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
css9
microservices-application4
microservices4
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/genie
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Distributed Big Data Orchestration Service
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 68 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily contributed to the development of the user interface for the Genie3 project. Their work focused on implementing new UI elements, including a new UI, and enhancing existing ones. They made changes to the stylesheet, and implemented a few improvements to existing components and refactored some UI code. They also added code to handle and display jobs and related data within the new UI.
microservicebigdataorchestrationconfiguration-managementnetflixoss
Netflix/pygenie
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 releases, 5 reviews, 22 commits in 3 years 1 month
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