Snehashis Pal
Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSnehashis Pal is a Senior Software Engineer II with 7 years of experience building reliable, efficient back-end systems, currently focusing on Kafka, Kafka Connect and Confluent Cloud at Confluent. He favors principled, minimal designs that solve fundamental problems and has a track record of quickly learning and applying new techniques to deliver cohesive products. His open-source contributions include stabilizing the widely used Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector—fixing client creation and data-handling edge cases and improving cross-branch compatibility. Earlier work includes cloud cost-optimization and automation at MoEngage, reflecting a practical comfort with both distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Based in Hyderabad, he blends academic grounding from IIIT-H and St. Xavier’s with pragmatic engineering that prioritizes robustness under real-world conditions.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), KolkataMaster of Technology - MTech Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (11)
javas10
elasticsearch10
error-handling10
kafka-connect10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
data-validation9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 58 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Snehashis primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector. Their contributions included addressing client creation exceptions within the validation process and updating error messages for clarity. They also integrated merges from other branches, ensuring the connector's compatibility and functionality across different versions, and fixed a data exception related to the handling of non-JSON payloads. Further contributions involved code refactoring and applying merges from other branches.
kafka-connectorconnectorkafka-connectelasticsearchkafka
snehashisp/kafka
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:129 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 6 months
avrokafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkksqldb
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