Kowshik Prakasam
Senior Engineering Manager (Senior Staff Engineer) at Confluent
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKowshik Prakasam is a Senior Engineering Manager and infrastructure leader with 16 years of experience designing and scaling petabyte-scale distributed systems at Meta and Confluent. He led the transformation of Kafka into a cloud-native, tiered-storage architecture that decoupled compute from durable object stores across AWS, GCP, and Azure, materially reducing TCO and operational complexity for Confluent Cloud. A hands-on technologist who still contributes to Apache Kafka core (including KIP-584 work and broker performance fixes), he blends deep systems engineering with product-minded team leadership across multi-functional teams and foundational workstreams. Based in Mountain View, he is known for shipping reliable, high-throughput storage and messaging platforms that underpin global services and for driving operational excellence through on-call leadership and large-scale consistency tooling.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraB.E., Computer Science & Engineering, B.E., Computer Science & Engineering at PSG College of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
zookeeper10
java10
scala10
javas10
apache-kafka10
testing9
multithreading9
thread9
concurrency9
data-structures8
data-structure8
checksum6
cluster-analysis6
covariance6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:304 reviews, 38 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kowshik's primary contributions focused on implementing and refactoring core components within the Apache Kafka project. Their work included eliminating unused references, implementing the read and write paths for the feature versioning system (KIP-584), and addressing InterruptedException issues in tests. Furthermore, the user fixed LogManager shutdown error handling and improved segment iteration logic. These contributions centered around the core functionality and performance of the Kafka broker.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
kowshik/kafka
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:360 pushes, 53 branches in 2 years 11 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkkafka-consumerstreams
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