Navinder Brar
Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolNavinder Brar is a Software Engineering Manager who builds and leads high-throughput Data and AI platforms at scale, with eight years of experience across Fortune 500s and early-stage startups. He helped found Walmart’s Customer Data Platform that processes ~40 billion events/day with sub-10ms serving latencies and holds four US patents for innovations in streaming and multi-tenant inference. At Phaidra he scaled the Data Platform from seed-stage, and at LinkedIn he now oversees Tier-0 metadata and pub/sub infrastructure efforts including migration to next-generation platforms like NorthGuard. An active Apache Kafka and Hudi contributor and Confluent Kafka Catalyst awardee, he has proposed key KIPs and organized community meetups in Bangalore. He is also an experienced international speaker on streaming and real-time ML inference, bringing a rare mix of hands-on systems design, patent-backed IP, and community leadership.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
English, Punjabi, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
database10
streaming10
storage-engine9
stream-processing9
optimization8
incremental-processing8
reinforcement-learning8
serialization8
key-value-store8
pytorch7
parallel7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brary/kafka
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapachekafkajava
brary/metadata-go
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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