Karthikeyan Srinivasan
Software Engineer at Penske Truck Leasing
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthikeyan Srinivasan is a software engineer with eight years of professional experience building and maintaining enterprise Java applications across logistics, healthcare, and retail domains. He currently develops deal management features and supports UAT/production at Penske Truck Leasing, bringing hands-on expertise in Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, OpenShift and Angular. Previously he delivered large-scale test data and batch-loading solutions at Quest Diagnostics and worked on distribution and inventory analytics early in his career, blending engineering with business insight. An inquisitive open-source contributor, he resolved complex recursive/circular reference issues in the widely used Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka, demonstrating an ability to fix subtle backend correctness bugs. Educated with business-focused graduate degrees and a BE in electronics, he pairs technical depth with an appreciation for product and process. He is based in Reading, Pennsylvania and known for pragmatic problem solving and steady delivery across the full SDLC.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master's degree, Finance, General, Master's degree, Finance, General at Hult International Business SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Github Skills (9)
javas10
avro10
kafka10
schema10
java10
rest-api9
json8
protobuf8
protobuffer8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/schema-registry
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 15 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Karthikeyan primarily contributed to the `confluentinc/schema-registry` repository by addressing inconsistencies in resolving recursive references within the schema registry. Their work involved modifying the AvroSchemaProvider to correctly handle circular references and fix related issues. They also addressed build and merge conflicts by merging the `7.7.x` branch.
avroschema-registryprotobuf-schemaprotobufschema-validation
karthikeyanas/confluent-kubernetes-examples
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Example scenario workflows for Confluent for Kubernetes
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
scenarioconfluent-for-kuberneteskubernetesconfluentworkflows
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