Ashish Khatkar
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshish Khatkar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed data and streaming platforms, currently based in the UK and working at Bloomberg after a long tenure on Yelp’s Core Streaming team. He has deep backend and DevOps experience—contributing to notable open-source projects like Yelp’s paasta by improving Flink integrations, status tooling, and release workflows. His career spans high-scale engineering roles at Yelp, Flipkart, and Microsoft, plus early work in cloud tooling and competitive programming education at IIIT-Delhi. Known for bridging production reliability and developer ergonomics, he combines hands-on systems coding with release management and observability improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
flink-sql10
apache-flink10
paas10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
linkedin-api6
java6
bash4
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 42 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashish primarily contributed to the `paasta` project by modifying and improving the Flink integration. Their work includes enhancing the `paasta status` command to display additional information about Flink jobs and pods, such as uptime and container status. They also addressed bugs, updated the dashboard URL, and streamlined the display of Flink version information. Furthermore, the user released various versions of the project via make release, indicating a role in the release management process.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
AshishKhatkar/paimon
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Apache Paimon is a lake format that enables building a Realtime Lakehouse Architecture with Flink and Spark for both streaming and batch operations.
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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