Akhilesh Manjunath
Staff Software Engineer at Confluent
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhilesh Manjunath is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with over a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems and data platforms across startups and enterprise teams. He currently drives core functionality at Confluent—contributing to the widely used Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka by improving inter-instance communication, robustness, and exception handling. His background spans real-time data, ETL automation, and attribution models from roles at Clari and Acxiom, demonstrating deep expertise in distributed systems and data infrastructure. Akhilesh pairs practical engineering with a focus on reliability, having made components Closeable and fixed checkstyle and exception issues that reduce operational risk. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU and brings a track record of evolving systems from intern-built prototypes to production-grade services. Colleagues would note he combines low-level robustness improvements with product-facing data platform features—work that often prevents incidents before they surface.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New York University
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
javas10
kafka10
schema10
java10
rest-api9
rest-client8
rest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/schema-registry
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:256 reviews, 48 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Akhilesh primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka. Their work involved implementing a new optional configuration option, `host.port`, for communication between instances. Additionally, the user fixed checkstyle errors and modified several classes to make certain functionalities Closeable, increasing the overall robustness. They also addressed exception handling within different modules.
avroschema-registryprotobuf-schemaprotobufschema-validation
confluentinc/schema-registry-yang-format
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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