Sushant Mahajan
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSushant Mahajan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems across Confluent, AWS, and SAP, and holds an MTech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. He specializes in distributed systems, security for Kafka, PaaS architecture and has hands-on expertise in Go, Java, Python, Kubernetes and AWS. His research on homomorphic encryption informed practical implementations of linear regression and other ML metrics over encrypted data, blending cryptography with ML and cloud engineering. At Confluent he contributes to Kafka security and has upstream contributions to the apache/kafka repository improving token retrieval, error handling and partition metrics. He holds three granted patents and a background in systems administration and automation from his IITB research role, reflecting a mix of production software design and low-level operational know-how. Colleagues rely on him for robust design, pragmatic troubleshooting, and shipping secure, high-performance services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayB-Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, B-Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at JIIT Jaypee Institute of InformationTechnologyXth; ICSE, Computer Science, Xth; ICSE, Computer Science at St. Joseph’s Academy
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
user-authentication10
kafka10
authentication10
java10
oauth9
unit-testing9
metric8
encapsulation6
private-members6
scala5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:201 reviews, 2 commits, 51 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sushant primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by enhancing the `HttpAccessTokenRetriever` to improve error handling and logging for authentication failures, adding unit tests to validate error responses. They also addressed a bug in the `FileTokenRetriever` class, implementing code to trim extraneous characters from the retrieved token to ensure authentication success. Furthermore, the user added a `ShareGroupMetrics` class to record metrics within the `SharePartitionManager`. They refactored code to include moved external interfaces to a share module.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
smjn/kafka
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:297 pushes, 44 branches in 2 years 6 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapachekafkajava
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