Marat Pekker
Engineering at Redpanda Data
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarat Pekker is an engineering professional based in California with nearly two decades of hands-on experience across DevOps, automation, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing to Redpanda Data’s testing and cloud deployment tooling. He blends deep CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code expertise from senior roles at VMware and consulting work—designing dynamic pipelines, multi-cloud deployments, and monitoring systems for high-availability services. A practical problem-solver, he has shipped reliability improvements and Azure support in the high-performance open-source Redpanda streaming project, and routinely tackles test flakiness, latency spikes, and large-scale orchestration issues. Marat also brings applied experience in blockchain node automation, AI/ML infrastructure (RAG, vector DBs), and database operations, making him effective at bridging developer workflows with production-grade automation.
2 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeLLMs and Vector databases in production, LLMs and Vector databases in production at ActiveloopGoogle Cloud Security 6 month program and certificationCIS, CIS at Devry University, Fremont
English, Russian
Github Skills (15)
redpanda10
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
kafka9
container9
stream-processing8
azure8
microsoft-azure8
aws7
gcp7
go7
cpp6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 46 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marat primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and cloud deployment aspects of the Redpanda project. Their contributions include modifying test configurations, adding features to skip tests based on cloud type, implementing concurrent pod restarts, and fixing timeout issues. They also added Azure support for cloud tests and updated the Kubectl client. Moreover, the user addressed latency spikes, improved the detection of high-priority alerts, and added custom options for load_many_segments function.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
rpdevmp/ducktape
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
System integration and performance tests
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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