Mukul Singh
Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMukul Singh is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in cloud platform and distributed storage with over 11 years of experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams. He has deep technical roots in filesystems and storage — from WAFL and CASL at NetApp and Nimble to leading HDFS, Ozone, and Raft work at Cloudera and in Apache projects. Currently he leads the Cloud Platform team at Confluent, owning metrics and logging for Confluent Cloud while continuing as an active Apache committer on Hadoop, Ozone, and Ratis. Mukul blends hands-on systems engineering in C/Java/Python with leadership that bootstraps teams and drives cross-project integrations. Notably, his open-source contributions include bug fixes and protocol robustness improvements in widely used projects like Apache Hadoop and Ratis, reflecting a focus on production-grade reliability. He holds an MS from Carnegie Mellon and brings a research-to-production perspective from work on SMR disk filesystems to large-scale cloud storage.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 77.10/100, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 77.10/100 at R. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreMaster of Science (MS), 3.58/4.0, Master of Science (MS), 3.58/4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
consensus10
back-end-development10
hdfs10
object-storage10
hadoop10
java10
javas10
raft10
backend10
server10
raft-protocol10
grpc10
server-side10
scripting9
javadoc9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ozone
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:183 reviews, 138 commits, 178 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mukul contributed to the Ozone project by implementing clean-up of changes from other projects, which includes updating and refactoring Java code, primarily within the HDDS common and ozone-manager modules. These updates involve modifying configurations, class definitions, and REST server interactions for object storage functionalities. The user also contributed to acceptance tests and shell scripts by renaming and fixing command line scripts.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
apache/ratis
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
Open source Java implementation for Raft consensus protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 49 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mukul primarily contributed to the Apache Ratis project by addressing potential issues in the gRPC client and server implementations, which included closing streams and handling replies after closure. Their work extended to the server-side code, specifically in `RaftServerImpl.java`, where they fixed a bug related to follower state updates. Furthermore, they added the `getLastAppliedTermIndex` to the `StateMachine` interface and implemented other enhancements to the core functionalities.
raft-consensusraft-consensus-algorithmconsensus-protocolconsensuspaxos
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