Sagar Rao
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSagar Rao is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 13+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and streaming platforms. He is an active open-source committer to Apache Kafka and author of multiple adopted KIPs (KIP-614, KIP-725, KIP-770), reflecting deep domain expertise in event streaming internals. His career spans senior technical roles at Confluent, Walmart Labs, ESPN and now Google, where he drives architecture and reliability for production systems. Sagar blends hands-on engineering with cross-team leadership, mentoring engineers while owning system-wide improvements. Unusually, he has both long-tenured enterprise experience and a record of influencing upstream open-source protocol design, making him effective at bridging product needs with foundational platform changes.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Github Skills (35)
kafka-connect10
confluent10
kafka-connector10
kafka10
java10
sink10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
apache9
cdc9
scala9
jdbc9
databases9
kafka-consumer9
confluent-cloud9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/debezium
Jun 2022 - Oct 2023
Change data capture for a variety of databases. https://debezium.io Please log issues in our JIRA at https://issues.jboss.org/projects/DBZ/issues
Contributions:9 reviews, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
jbossdebeziumsqlchange-data-capturejira
sagarrao12/connect-file-system
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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