Maulin Vasavada
Engineering Leader - Data And Streaming Platforms
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaulin Vasavada is an engineering leader specializing in data and streaming platforms with two decades of experience designing and operating high-scale, low-latency systems. Currently building the data and streaming platforms team for Weights & Biases at CoreWeave, he has a proven track record driving platform scalability and performance at companies like Venmo and PayPal, where his Kafka work supported trillions of messages and 99.99% availability. He blends deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cloud data infrastructure, and CI-driven quality with a talent for mentoring and growing high-performing teams. An active Apache contributor, Maulin has helped harden Kafka and Cassandra security (KIP-519, CEP-9), reflecting his commitment to production-grade open source. Based in San Jose, he pairs academic foundations from USC with pragmatic, results-focused leadership that surfaces systemic bottlenecks and turns them into scalable, operational solutions. Notably, he repeatedly delivers measurable latency and throughput improvements while coaching teams to own reliability and observability.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaB.E. Computer Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering at Gujarat University
Github Skills (18)
cassandra10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
osgi10
sling10
apache-kafka10
database10
kafka-consumer10
statsd4
client-library4
datadog3
sink3
kafka-streams2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maulin-vasavada/cassandra
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 64 pushes in 7 months
maulin-vasavada/kafka
Sep 2019 - Dec 2024
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkksqldbstream-processing
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