Komal Patel
Senior Recruiter at Confluent
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKomal Patel is a strategic full-cycle talent partner with over a decade of recruiting experience and five years focused on scaling technical and go-to-market teams for high-growth cloud companies. Based in San Jose, she led hiring efforts at Confluent that delivered 310+ hires across sales, customer success, solutions engineering and core infrastructure, and built Professional Services and Technical Accounts teams from zero to 50+. Comfortable hiring across technical and non-technical roles, she brings hands-on knowledge of developer ecosystems—having contributed backend and test automation fixes to prominent open-source projects like Apache Kafka and Confluent’s S3 connector. Known for shaping recruitment strategies and candidate experience, she thrives at companies pioneering real-time data and cloud-native platforms and now applies that expertise at Replit. An accounting graduate with an HR emphasis, she combines analytical rigor with deep people instincts to align talent to mission-driven, fast-moving engineering organizations.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Accounting , emphasis on Human Resources, Bachelor's degree, Accounting , emphasis on Human Resources at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Github Skills (18)
kafka-connect10
testing10
java10
scala10
javas10
junit10
file-handling10
aws-s310
apache-kafka10
mockito10
avro9
aws9
concurrency9
rest-api8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Komal primarily contributed to enhancing the Apache Kafka Connect framework, focusing on improving error handling, optimizing configuration validation, and implementing new features. They addressed a critical issue by suppressing uncaught exceptions during Connect task shutdown, ensuring correct behavior. Additionally, the user refactored code to improve cache access during connector class instantiation, resolving potential race conditions. They also worked on removing deprecated configurations and adding new tests to cover the implemented changes.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
confluentinc/kafka-connect-storage-cloud
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Kafka Connect suite of connectors for Cloud storage (Amazon S3)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 27 commits, 12 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Komal primarily contributed to the Kafka Connect S3 connector by implementing and testing changes related to file naming and scheduled rotation. Their work involved modifying the `Utils.java` and `UtilsTest.java` files to improve filename adjustments and add test cases for various scenarios. Additionally, they addressed a bug related to generating small files when scheduled rotation expired. The user also merged branches and fixed build errors related to the merge.
sinkconfluent-cloudamazonamazon-s3cloud
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