Arun Mathew is a server-side and platform engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and high-scale Kafka deployments. He has driven reliability and performance work on some of the world’s largest Kafka clusters (200–250+ brokers) at LINE and Yahoo! Japan and currently focuses on hybrid multi-AZ resilience, zero-downtime migrations, and benchmarking Kafka vs Pulsar. Comfortable in sustaining roles, Arun has authored hotfixes, backports, and test automation for the HDF stack and contributed to MirrorMaker2 improvements, demonstrating a knack for maintaining complex production systems. His M.Tech research and career-long focus on low-latency streaming underline a practical obsession with optimization and performance. Pragmatic and fast-learning, he often becomes the go-to engineer for deep-dive RCA and system tuning with minimal handover. Based in Tokyo, he pairs hands-on operations experience with a history of rapid promotions and peer-recognized impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
THSE, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer, English, Electronics, THSE, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer, English, Electronics at Model Technical Higher Secondary School
SSLC, Science, Maths, Humanities, English, Hindi, Malayalam, SSLC, Science, Maths, Humanities, English, Hindi, Malayalam at Mary Matha Higher Secondary School
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering at Model Engineering College
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Arun Mathew - Server Side Engineer at LY Corporation