Summary
Chandan Kumar is a Staff Product Specialist focused on Apache NiFi with 7 years of hands-on experience across Linux systems, RHEL support, and dataflow platform engineering. Starting as a Linux sysadmin and moving through Red Hat support into Hortonworks/Cloudera, he now bridges product engineering, support, and customers to optimize NiFi, NiFi Registry, MiNiFi and Edge Flow Manager deployments on-prem and in cloud. He routinely advises on cluster configuration, security and governance, and designs flow patterns tailored to real-world use cases while participating in backline troubleshooting and proactive best practices. Based in Bengaluru, he combines deep operational discipline from infrastructure management with product-facing expertise, enabling faster incident resolution and safer data flows. Outside work he volunteers and experiments with making "dumb computers understand feelings," reflecting a curiosity for human-centered automation and continual learning.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
RHCE
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at RAIPUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RAIPUR
Post graduate Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure and System Security, A, Post graduate Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure and System Security, A at Center for Development of Advance Computing
English, Hindi