Shankar Hiremath
Engineering Leader at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShankar Hiremath is an engineering leader based in Bengaluru with nearly a decade of experience leading teams that build, deploy, and operate enterprise data platforms. At Confluent he oversees multiple engineering teams responsible for the Confluent Platform and its Kubernetes and Ansible-driven deployment/management tooling, combining deep expertise in Kafka, container orchestration, and automation. His background spans senior leadership roles at Cloudera, Hortonworks, and Huawei, where he built world-class automation, CI/CD, and developer productivity infrastructure across data-in-motion and data-at-rest ecosystems. Known for hiring and retaining high-performing teams, he focuses on measurable improvements in developer velocity and product quality through robust test, release, and automation frameworks. Technically fluent across Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins and OpenStack, he brings practical experience stitching microservices and infrastructure into reliable production workflows. An electronics and communications graduate, he pairs systems-level understanding with hands-on delivery of scalable, production-grade platforms.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics and Communications, Electronics and Communications at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (29)
json10
avro10
kafka-connect10
confluent10
connect10
kafka10
stream10
confluent-cloud10
ansible10
confluent-platform10
rest-api10
schema10
testing9
json-schema9
commons9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/qelib
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
confluentinc/cp-ansible
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
schema-registryksqlconfluent-cloudansiblerest-proxy
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