Arjun Satish
Software Engineer at Confluent
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolArjun Satish is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building real-time systems and analytics pipelines, currently working on Kafka Connect at Confluent in Palo Alto. He combines deep backend expertise in distributed systems with practical DevOps experience, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Kafka and Confluent’s connectors and schema registry. His work spans improving connector reliability, error handling, metrics, and auth/configuration—helping teams run resilient streaming data pipelines at scale. Previously he engineered Turn’s real-time bidding stack and debugging/analytics tools that ran millions of bids per second and supported fast incident resolution. Arjun holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Irvine, with research roots in context discovery for real-world events, which informs his focus on observability and robust data semantics.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at National Public SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityHigher Education/Higher Education Administration, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at Air Force Bal Bharti School, DelhiUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (55)
elasticsearch-api10
timeseries-database10
avro10
kafka-connect10
docker10
cloud-computing10
api-design10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
configuration-management10
big-data10
kafka10
hdfs10
query-optimization10
hadoop10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 53 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by implementing and improving error handling mechanisms and refining configurations within the Kafka Connect framework. Their work included enabling DLQ, adding and modifying metrics for better monitoring, and updating the REST API for managing log levels dynamically. They also fixed bugs and clarified documentation related to consumer behavior and correct handling of special characters in connectors.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
confluentinc/cp-docker-images
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
[DEPRECATED] Docker images for Confluent Platform.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Arjun primarily focused on updating documentation and examples related to deploying Confluent Platform components using Docker. The commits include modifications to quickstart guides, configuration documentation, and test files. These changes involve updating Docker commands, environment variable configurations, and example setups for various Confluent services, reflecting a focus on improving user experience and simplifying deployments within a Docker environment.
confluent-platformdocker-imagesafe-settings
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