Himanshu Gahlaut
Head Of Software Engineering - Data Privacy Platform
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHimanshu Gahlaut is a seasoned software engineering leader based in Berlin, currently heading Zalando’s Data Privacy Platform with 16 years of industry experience and 11 years in senior roles. He founded and scaled the Privacy Technology department to four teams focused on pseudonymization, personal data discovery and automated privacy governance, reporting directly to the CISO. A pragmatic architect of distributed systems, he has run high-throughput event streaming (170K+ events/sec), built Nakadi SQL for stream processing with SQL, and delivered zero-incident peaks for Cyber Week and Black Friday. His stack spans AWS and GCP, Spark/Databricks, Kafka, Kubernetes and privacy tooling such as Collibra, reflecting deep cross-cloud and data engineering expertise. An active open-source contributor and former Apache Lens PMC, he combines hands-on engineering, on-call operational experience and privacy-first product leadership. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns complex regulatory and scalability requirements into practical, auditable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate (XII), Science, 91.8%, Intermediate (XII), Science, 91.8% at ISC Board-Council of Indian School Certificate ExaminationsB.Tech (Honours), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.62/10, B.Tech (Honours), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.62/10 at National Institute of Technology RourkelaHigh School (X), 90.83%, High School (X), 90.83% at ICSE Board-Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
English, German, Hindi
Github Skills (31)
flask9
react8
python8
visualization7
analytics7
stream7
apache7
data-analysis7
data-visualization7
data-analytics6
kafka-connect6
data-science6
sql5
interactive5
ksqldb5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
himanshugahlaut/incubator-lens
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:272 pushes, 19 branches in 6 months
javalensapache
himanshugahlaut/grill
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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