Nitesh Mor
Software Engineer at Confluent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNitesh Mor is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and backend systems, currently contributing to Confluent’s platform from San Francisco. He focuses on robust, configurable tooling—adding secure config types, file-watching utilities, and SSL auto-reload support across core Confluent libraries and services. His work spans backend development and DevOps, improving Docker deployments, health checks, and operational scripts for Kafka-related projects. A UC Berkeley PhD and MS in Computer Science with a B.Tech from IIT Delhi, he combines rigorous research training with practical production engineering. At Confluent he’s been instrumental in integrating and hardening shared utilities used across the Kafka ecosystem, reflecting a knack for behind-the-scenes improvements that boost reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Github Skills (35)
api-rest10
confluent10
docker10
ssl10
tls1210
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
configuration-management10
kafka10
bash10
tls1310
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/common
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Common utilities library containing metrics, config and utils
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 43 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nitesh contributed to the Confluent common utilities library, primarily focusing on the addition and modification of core functionalities. Their work involved merging branches and introducing new features such as the `Password` class and map type support in the `ConfigDef` class for handling sensitive configurations. Additionally, the user refactored and added supporting utility functions for file handling and testing purposes within the codebase. These modifications suggest a focus on enhancing the robustness and configurability of the library.
metricsconfigutilsutilities-library
confluentinc/ksql
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
The database purpose-built for stream processing applications.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nitesh's commits primarily involve merging branches and incorporating changes from other versions into the main codebase, specifically targeting the ksqldb-api-client and the api itself. The commits include changes to test files, suggesting a focus on testing and verifying the functionality of the API. The user appears to be involved in the maintenance and integration of different code branches and adapting the codebase to work in different ksqldb versions, as demonstrated by the merge operations.
databasestream-processingreal-timesqlinteractive
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