Soumyajit Sahu
Senior Software Development Engineer at Zillow Group
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoumyajit Sahu is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale big data streaming platforms, currently driving streaming infrastructure at Zillow Group from Seattle. He has deep expertise building high-throughput, highly available pub-sub pipelines—having architected and run Kafka-based platforms at Microsoft, including early Windows-hosted Kafka deployments and custom subscription systems predating Kafka Connect. Soumyajit pairs systems-level engineering (C/C++, Java) with practical security and compliance work, such as implementing data-at-rest encryption for enterprise services. His background spans both R&D infrastructure at VMware and production services at major enterprises, reflecting strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills. He is passionate about elegant, fundamentals-driven software design and contributes to open source (including minor Kafka fixes) while keeping a developer-first perspective. Based in Seattle with graduate training in computer engineering, he excels at turning complex distributed systems challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Technology, Information and Communication Technology, Bachelors of Technology, Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication TechnologyMasters, Computer Engineering, Masters, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (46)
kafka10
apache10
sasl10
java10
producer-consumer10
scala10
producer10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
sink9
librdkafka9
partition9
csv8
dotnet8
endpoints8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
soumyajit-sahu/siphon-kafka-connect-eventhub
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Kafka Connect Azure Event Hub consists of the Sink Connector for streaming data from Kafka to Azure Event Hubs
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 8 months
sinkstreaming-dataazure-event-hubsconnectorconsists
microsoft/CSharpClient-for-Kafka
Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
.Net implementation of the Apache Kafka Protocol that provides basic functionality through Producer/Consumer classes. The project also offers balanced consumer implementation.
Contributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 8 months
dotnetapache-kafkaapachekafka-protocolsasl
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