Kunal Gupta
Software Engineer at Confluent
Summary
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RockstarKunal Gupta is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on back-end systems, currently contributing to Confluent's open-source ecosystem. He has worked deeply on the Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka, implementing configuration enhancements, schema tag handling, and FIPS-mode fixes—showing attention to both features and security compliance. Comfortable operating in core service logic, he bridges bug fixes, refactors, and feature additions that keep distributed data platforms robust. His contributions to a high-profile project in the Kafka ecosystem reflect experience with production-grade, developer-facing infrastructure. Colleagues would find him pragmatic, detail-oriented, and effective at shipping durable changes across multiple files and subsystems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
javas10
configuration-management10
kafka10
java10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
schema9
fips9
rest-api9
avro9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/schema-registry
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 50 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily worked on enhancing the Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka. Their contributions involved adding configurations for resource extensions, renaming configurations, and addressing bugs related to FIPS mode. Furthermore, the user made changes to integrate and handle schema tag functionalities, indicating involvement in feature improvements and potential refactoring activities. These changes span multiple files and indicate the user's work in the core logic of the schema registry.
avroschema-registryprotobuf-schemaprotobufschema-validation
rocketrice/Team-4545-Ouroboros-2k15
Aug 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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