Ankush Kalkote
Senior Engineering Manager at Confluent
Greater Hyderabad Area India
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Top SchoolAnkush Kalkote is a senior engineering manager with 16 years of experience leading large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering at Confluent, following senior technical roles at Microsoft and Google. He progressed from senior engineer to staff engineer and into management, blending deep hands-on systems design with people leadership to ship resilient, data-driven products. Based in Hyderabad, he has a strong track record in cloud-native messaging and infrastructure, mentoring teams through technical transitions and scaling challenges. His background founding and leading technology at Learnpedia and freelancing for SMEs shows an entrepreneurial bent and practical product focus beyond marquee firms. Known for bridging architecture and delivery, he brings both startup agility and enterprise rigor to complex engineering problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic leader who still dives into code when it matters.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
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Github Skills (17)
sql8
interactive8
kafka8
ksqldb8
kafka-connect8
stream-processing7
database6
ruby-on-rails6
google-chrome6
webrtc6
android6
workbox6
devise6
java6
json6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ankushk/web-practice-todo-app
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ankushk/rails-practice-bshare2
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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