Athavan Kanapuli is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building resilient, scalable backend systems and infrastructure tooling. He combines deep reliability engineering expertise with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis and Go, frequently driving platform migrations and CI/CD transformations. At HelloFresh he led schema governance and Kafka rebranding efforts that improved data flow visibility by 75% and previously improved conversions through microservice extractions. A pragmatic open-source enthusiast and polyglot (Rust and Go fan), he pairs low-level Linux craftsmanship with practical production engineering. Known for turning manual ops into automated, observable systems—like slashing telecom install time from a week to hours—he focuses on making systems secure, fast and operable at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sri Sairam Engineering College
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