Abhishek Mendhekar
Engineering Manager at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Mendhekar is an engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale distributed data infrastructure, most recently leading teams at LinkedIn and now Pinterest from the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in stream processing—designing SQL-first workflows on Apache Flink and operating Kafka-backed pipelines that process billions to trillions of messages daily on auto-scaling, fully managed platforms. His background spans flash storage, data warehousing, and container orchestration, enabling him to bridge low-level performance engineering with high-level streaming abstractions. He’s delivered production-grade systems such as schema validation and streaming audit services that surface data completeness to executives, and he actively mentors teams to drive reliability and developer productivity. Known for combining hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, he’s also exploring generative AI to simplify stream processing authoring and migrations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (49)
derived10
apache-flink10
python10
operation10
partition10
kafka10
broker10
synthetic10
big-data10
monitors10
self-healing10
apache10
java10
scala10
latency10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
abhishekmendhekar/kafka
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkksqldbapache
abhishekmendhekar/cruise-control
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Cruise-control is the first of its kind to fully automate the dynamic workload rebalance and self-healing of a kafka cluster. It provides great value to Kafka users by simplifying the operation of Kafka clusters.
Contributions:26 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
operationcruise-controlclusterskafka-clusterrebalance
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