Pranav Rathi
Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolPranav Rathi is a Senior Software Engineer II with 7 years of experience building scalable backend and platform systems, currently driving core Kafka client features at Confluent. He has a strong platform engineering background from Paysafe and hands-on experience at Amazon designing recommendation and seller-facing systems, which gives him a practical mix of distributed systems and product-focused engineering. At Confluent he contributed to widely used open-source Kafka clients in both Go and Python, adding Admin API features, KIP implementations, test automation and multi-OS build support—work that impacts production Kafka users worldwide. Known for shipping robust integrations and improving developer tooling, he combines deep systems thinking with a knack for documentation and test quality. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs an IIIT Hyderabad computer science degree with a pattern of moving from individual contributor projects to lead platform responsibilities.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, 8.11, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, 8.11 at International Institute of Information Technology
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (18)
admin10
python10
testing10
kafka10
librdkafka10
go10
api10
confluent9
pytest9
error-handling9
producer7
customer7
golang6
uuid6
kafkajs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Confluent's Kafka Python Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 releases, 247 reviews, 82 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Pranav contributed significantly to the Confluent Kafka Python client, focusing on enhancements and testing. Their work included adding support for new features like `consumer.memberid()`, updating documentation to emphasize the use of a logger, and fixing typos in the documentation. The user also played a key role in the implementation of several KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals) related to consumer groups and other functionalities. Furthermore, the user updated and fixed testing for transaction API and wheel generation.
pythonkafka-pythonconfluent-cloudpython-clientkafka-protocol
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 35 reviews, 11 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Pranav contributed to the core functionality of the confluent-kafka-go client library, focusing on the Admin API. Their work involved adding new features like topic IDs and also updating the library to the latest librdkafka release. The user also made changes to documentation and error code handling. The user also contributed to build scripts for different OS and architecture combinations.
golanggolang-libraryapache-kafkaconfluent-cloudgolang-bindings
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