Ashwin Pankaj
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAshwin Pankaj is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of systems and virtualization experience, currently leading platform and distributed systems work at Confluent after senior engineering roles at Amazon and Cisco. He brings deep expertise in distributed analytics, software-defined networking, virtualization (VMware, Xen, Intel VT‑D), and storage OS internals (Data ONTAP, NetApp), plus low-level system knowledge from HP and Novell days. Ashwin is comfortable across kernel-space and user-space, from MMU and APIC internals to high-availability and cloud-scale service design, and he regularly bridges hardware, hypervisor, and storage concerns to deliver robust infra. Notably, his career path shows a steady focus on marrying virtualization and storage technologies into production-grade distributed platforms.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at UVCEKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English
Github Skills (39)
kotlin10
confluent-kafka10
confluent10
groovy10
kafka10
java10
scala10
confluent-cloud10
confluent-platform10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
gradle10
kafka-connect9
search-engine9
analytics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ashwinpankaj/kafka
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
ashwinpankaj/kafka-docker-playground
Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
🐳✨ Fully automated Apache Kafka® and Confluent Docker based examples // 👷♂️ Easily build examples or reproduction models
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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