Tanish Grover
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTanish Grover is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with eight years of experience building distributed systems, databases, and ML-informed services. Currently on Uber Maps, he has moved through roles at Confluent and Microsoft where he worked on Kafka Connect and Defender for Office, respectively, blending backend systems engineering with production-grade reliability. His open-source contributions to the widely used confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc show deep practical knowledge of connector internals—adding PostgreSQL array support, improving retry semantics, and handling Oracle CLOB edge cases. Comfortable across cloud-scale infrastructure and data pipelines, he brings a pragmatic focus on robust integrations and data correctness. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful engineering trade-offs and steady delivery on complex, cross-system problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)
Hindi, English
Github Skills (15)
javas10
databases10
confluent10
kafka-connect10
postgresql10
jdbc10
data-integration10
sql-database10
java10
streaming9
testing9
oracles9
kafka-connector9
oracle9
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 46 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tanish's commits primarily focused on enhancing the JDBC connector's functionality for various database interactions within a Kafka Connect environment. They implemented changes to improve retry mechanisms by reinitializing writer objects, added tests for table auto-creation after deletion, and addressed a specific requirement for Oracle database CLOB columns by adding a length parameter to the setCharacterStream method. Further contributions involved merging branches and adapting the code to support array columns for PostgreSQL databases, thus enhancing data type support.
sinkkafka-connectorconnectorstreamingdatabases
Tanish0019/React-Chatbot
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
A DialogFlow Chatbot made using NodeJS and React.
Contributions:29 commits, 13 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactdialogflow-chatbotjavascriptnodejsdialogflow
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