Cyrus Vafadari
Software Engineer at Vanta
United States
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Top SchoolCyrus Vafadari is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building robust back-end and platform systems, most recently focusing on IAM product and platform engineering at Confluent and now at Vanta. He has deep Kafka Connect expertise—contributing secure HTTPS support, storage and late-record handling for S3, JDBC diagnostics and HDFS improvements—to widely used open-source connectors and the Apache Kafka project. Comfortable across product and infrastructure boundaries, he combines backend development with DevOps practices, automated testing (Docker-based integration tests), and thoughtful logging/observability improvements. His background in physics (BS, MIT) and early research internships hint at a data-driven, experimental approach to problem solving and a history of shipping both startups and enterprise-grade features.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Nuclear Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Nuclear Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (34)
kafka-connect10
docker10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
http10
kafka10
big-data10
hdfs10
hadoop10
jdbc10
dockers10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Cyrus primarily contributes to the Apache Kafka project by implementing and refining core functionalities within the Connect component. Their work includes adding logging to Connect SMTs for improved schema visibility and fixing string conversion issues to prevent null pointer exceptions. They also added support for Standalone Connect configurations in Rest Server extensions, addressing a specific bug. Furthermore, the user implemented metrics and performed code modifications to ensure proper task state monitoring.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc
Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Cyrus primarily contributed to the JDBC connector's backend logic, with a focus on enhancing logging and debugging capabilities. Their work included adding detailed log statements to various components, such as the JDBC Sink and Source tasks and related classes (BufferedRecords, JdbcDbWriter, etc.), to improve the diagnostic process. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the configuration related to the database timezone and resolved issues related to the timestamp querying logic. The user also added fixes related to the Db2 dialect.
sinkkafka-connectorconnectorstreamingdatabases
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