Prasanth Vemula
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrasanth Vemula is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and exploring the product potential of Generative AI. He has deep production experience at Confluent, contributing to the widely used confluent-kafka-go client with bug fixes, stability improvements and CI migrations, and implemented KIP-339 incremental alter configs. Prasanth has startup and founder experience from a brief stealth AI venture, pairing entrepreneurial curiosity with production-grade engineering. Based in Bengaluru, he blends systems-level thinking from distributed messaging with hands-on ML and deep learning exposure from earlier roles and internships. He recently left a full-time role to focus on innovation and collaborative product-building in generative AI, and is actively open to brainstorming and partnerships. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers shipping robust solutions over theoretical idealism.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar
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Github Skills (6)
go10
api10
admin10
back-end-development10
cicd9
librdkafka8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 22 commits, 17 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Prasanth contributed significantly to the `confluent-kafka-go` client, focusing on various aspects of the backend implementation. Their work involved bug fixes and enhancements related to the validity of clients such as `Producer`, `Consumer`, and `AdminClient`, preventing potential crashes. They also worked on migrating the project's CI/CD pipeline to SemaphoreCI, including build environment setup and package updates. Furthermore, the user implemented KIP-339 by adding incremental alter configs.
golanggolang-libraryapache-kafkaconfluent-cloudgolang-bindings
PrasanthV454/confluent-kafka-dotnet
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Confluent's Apache Kafka .NET client
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
avrosinkdotnetapache-kafkaconfluent-cloud
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