Varun V
Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun V is a Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent with around 4 years of focused experience in distributed systems and cloud-native development, primarily using Go, Java, and Kubernetes. He designs and implements mission-critical infrastructure and security features (RBAC, OAuth), and builds new microservices and Kubernetes operators that enable customers to run Confluent streaming services on private clusters. Varun has contributed to the widely-used Confluent Schema Registry—fixing Protobuf/JSON converter bugs and adding OAuth configuration—demonstrating strong backend and integration skills in production Kafka ecosystems. With an MTech from IISc and a background in data engineering and forecasting at Amazon, he brings both rigorous data-science training and practical operational experience to architecting scalable, secure systems. Unusually for his experience level, he combines low-level protocol work with cloud operator design, bridging developer ergonomics and enterprise security.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computational and Data Science, Master of Technology - MTech, Computational and Data Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
Github Skills (13)
javas10
api-rest10
kafka10
rest-api10
schema10
api-design10
oauth10
restful-api10
java10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
json9
avro9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/schema-registry
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Confluent Schema Registry for Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Varun primarily contributed to the Confluent Schema Registry, a Kafka-based service. Their contributions focused on bug fixes related to error messages in data converters for Protobuf and JSON schemas. They also integrated changes from other branches, merging code to update the core functionality of the schema registry. Further contributions involved adding and modifying configurations for OAuth authentication and related settings, including API changes.
avroschema-registryprotobuf-schemaprotobufschema-validation
varunpv/golang-webauth
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 tags in 2 months
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