Manasjyoti Sharma is a backend and distributed-systems engineer turned founder, currently building FortifyRoot to provide token-level cost, safety and audit controls for enterprise GenAI deployments. With nearly two decades of experience across Confluent, Uber, Amazon, Oracle OCI and Informatica, he brings deep expertise in real-time streaming, big-data platforms and production-grade distributed systems. He has a proven track record of shaping technical strategy, simplifying complex architectures and mentoring high-performing teams while shipping reliable, scalable services. A hands-on contributor to the Kafka ecosystem (notably work on the confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc connector), he combines low-level systems understanding with pragmatic product focus. Based in Bengaluru and grounded in a BE CSE from NIT Surat, he’s focused on making GenAI safe, auditable and cost-predictable as it moves into production.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BE CSE, BE CSE at National Institute of Technology, Surat
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:20 reviews, 8 commits, 24 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Manasjyoti primarily focused on improving the JDBC connector for JDBC-compatible databases within the Kafka Connect ecosystem. Their contributions included adjusting database schema mappings, specifically changing data types from CLOB to VARCHAR, and removing sensitive data from exception messages. The user also worked on supporting the Sybase jConnect JDBC 4 Driver and fixing issues with holdlock in the merge statement for SQL Server. Further contributions involved integrating tests and adjusting configurations within the project.
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Contributions:65 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
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