Shivji Jha
Staff Engineer at Nutanix
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShivji Jha is a Staff Engineer and engineering manager based in Bengaluru with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native data platforms and distributed systems. He leads a team at Nutanix that delivers self-hosted messaging, streaming, EventSourcing and OLAP as a service across multiple products, owning availability, scalability, observability, and internal forks of Apache Pulsar, NATS, Druid and Debezium. A long-time Apache Pulsar committer and contributor, he has implemented schema-flexibility and Flink connector improvements for Pulsar and regularly represents the community through talks and technical blogs. Shiv combines deep database internals experience from MySQL replication work with practical platform engineering at scale, running multi-cluster deployments in AWS and shaping best practices across product teams. He also hires and mentors engineering teams, and—less obvious—often bridges product and open source by upstreaming critical changes while maintaining production-ready internal forks.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (22)
avro10
messaging10
apache-flink10
back-end-development10
flink-sql10
java10
javas10
event-streaming10
apache-pulsar10
schema-changes10
apidoc9
api9
haproxy6
replication6
amazon-ec26
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pulsar
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Shivji primarily contributes to enhancing the Apache Pulsar messaging system, focusing on schema handling and flink connector improvements. They implemented features to allow for more flexible schema compatibility strategies, enabling multiple schemas on a topic. Furthermore, the user worked on the flink connector, adding authentication support and integrating configurations for Pulsar client, producer, and consumer. Their work also includes fixing bugs related to Avro encoding and providing more flexibility in flink pulsar source setup.
event-streamingpulsarmessaging-systemstreamingapache
shiv4289/pulsar
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Contributions:12 PRs, 56 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 7 months
pulsarmessaging-systemstreamsstreamingapache
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