Purshotam Chauhan
Senior Manager at Confluent
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPurshotam Chauhan is a Senior Manager and seasoned backend engineer with six years of industry experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Confluent in Delhi. He has progressed through hands-on roles from Senior Software Engineer to Staff and now Senior Manager, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems and authorization for messaging platforms. An active contributor to the Apache Kafka codebase, he has implemented ACL checks, refactored authorizer tests for zk and kraft modes, and optimized authorizer performance by removing R/W locks with persistent data structures. His background includes large-scale systems work at BloomReach and early SOA/web services experience at Accenture, complementing an M.E. in Computer Science from IISc. Colleagues know him for pragmatic performance-driven refactors that marry correctness with measurable benchmarking.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.E.) Computer Science Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.E.) Computer Science Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)B. Tech Information Technology, B. Tech Information Technology at Amity School of Engineering & Technology
Github Skills (8)
javas10
kafka10
authorizations10
authorization10
java10
testing9
performance-optimization8
scala7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Purshotam contributed to fixing a configuration behavior related to ACLs in the `StandardAuthorizer` and implemented missing checks in the Kraft Authorizer. They also refactored the `AclAuthorizerTest` to test both `zk` and `kraft` modes, indicating a focus on authorization and access control within Kafka. Furthermore, the user supported benchmarking the `StandardAuthorizer` and worked on removing R/W locks using persistent data structures to improve performance.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
emissionnebula/kafka
Apr 2022 - Sep 2023
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
data-streamstreamslibrdkafkaapache-kafkakafka-producer
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