Alok Thatikunta
Co-founder & CTO at Pulse
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAlok Thatikunta is a hands-on engineering leader and Co-founder & CTO with 10 years of experience building scalable data infrastructure and distributed systems. Trained at IIIT Hyderabad and Stony Brook, he moved from impactful internships at Microsoft and PayPal into multi-year contributions at Confluent where he helped design and ship durability and snapshotting features for Kafka storage and data management. Now leading Pulse, he is applying that deep systems expertise to build a Gen AI platform for product teams, combining product-minded engineering with reliable, production-grade storage design. An active open-source contributor, Alok has made focused improvements to the flagship Apache Kafka project—refactoring core storage code and hardening tests—highlighting a commitment to code quality in critical, high-throughput systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, equally comfortable sketching architecture as writing the low-level code that makes it resilient.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
javas10
kafka10
java10
scala9
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alok contributed to the Apache Kafka project by addressing multiple minor issues and making improvements across several areas. They updated test methods for improved accuracy, added a utility function for snapshot management, and refactored code for reusability, introducing related interfaces. The user also moved partition metadata files to the storage module, and fixed an issue with Java's equals comparison of UUID objects. These changes indicate a focus on code quality, and refactoring within the core system.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
alok123t/kafka
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:21 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkkafka-consumerapache
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