Nag Chilakam
Engineering Manager at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNag Chilakam is an engineering manager in Bengaluru with 6 years of experience leading test infrastructure, lifecycle automation, and release engineering for enterprise-grade distributed systems at Confluent. He combines deep hands-on expertise in event streaming (Kafka/KRaft) with a strong background in distributed storage technologies like GlusterFS, Ceph and tools development from his Red Hat and NetApp tenure. Known for driving customer-success initiatives, he focuses on management, UX, frictionless upgrades and supportability to make complex platforms operationally robust. Nag has architected nonfunctional test strategies and automation for large-scale storage products and presented learnings at international conferences, demonstrating a knack for translating customer edge cases into reproducible test workflows. Colleagues rely on him to bridge developer productivity, release reliability, and operational excellence across OnPrem and self-serve offerings. He pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a track record of tackling interoperability and long-term archival compliance challenges.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Tenth class all, Tenth class all at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher LearningB.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (64)
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confluent10
connect10
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confluent-cloud10
system-integration10
confluent-platform10
nfs9
fuse9
kafka-connect9
cdc9
fat9
monitoring9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nagpavan-chilakam/python-practice-excersises
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
This repo is for hosting my python practice excersises with solutions. Note that these solutions are as part of my python learning curve and hence could be not the most efficient code. Also note that the problems could have been taken from many sources but the solutions are what I could think of with what I learnt
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
hostingpythonpractice-pythonlearning-curveproblems
nagpavan-chilakam/github-slideshow
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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