Ajit Yagaty
Software Engineer at Confluent
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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SeniorAjit Yagaty is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building distributed storage and control-plane systems, currently contributing to the Confluent Cloud Control Plane in the Greater Seattle area. He brings deep full-stack systems expertise—from kernel and firmware-level Flash Translation Layer work on PCIe SSDs to scalable cloud services and orchestration using etcd, ZeroMQ, and time-series backends. His career spans memory and storage innovation at Virident/HGST and Samsung Semiconductor to cluster management at Couchbase, showing a rare blend of low-level performance tuning (NUMA, persistent data structures) and high-level distributed coordination. An active contributor to etcd, he has improved client tooling and consistency in a project foundational to many distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him for solving hard cross-layer problems and for turning complex storage requirements into reliable, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
distributed-systems10
go10
etcd10
key-value10
database9
distributed-database9
databases9
command-line-interface8
go-modules8
cli8
command-line8
raft7
consensus7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-io/etcd
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 22 PRs, 131 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ajit primarily contributed to the etcd project by adding new functionalities and fixing inconsistencies within the client and etcdctl. The user implemented an option to the `mk` command to create in-order keys, and fixed inconsistencies in naming conventions related to `ModifiedRevision` across different files. The user also worked on renaming functionalities for `CreatedRevision` for maintaining consistency. Additionally, the user added flags and aliases to the `etcdctl` commands to improve user experience and usability.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
ajityagaty/go-kairosdb
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
golangkairosdbgolang-client
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