Vikas Balani
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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Top SchoolVikas Balani is a Senior Software Engineer based in Jodhpur with two years of professional experience building cloud-native systems at Confluent. He progressed from intern to senior engineer at Confluent, where he developed and integrated a performance and chaos-testing framework for Cloud Connectors into CI/CD pipelines to catch bottlenecks before release. His internship at Adobe produced a few-shot NLP entity-extraction model and an annotation-to-inference pipeline for visually rich documents, demonstrating strengths at the intersection of ML and production engineering. Earlier R&D work at TIFR involved designing an accessible phonetic script and building web, API, and browser-extension tooling to help dyslexic readers—an example of applying engineering to social impact. Comfortable across backend services, testing infrastructure, and ML-assisted pipelines, he combines research-minded problem solving with hands-on delivery.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
kafka-connect10
confluent10
kafka-connector10
kafka10
sink10
confluent-cloud10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
java9
scala9
storage9
azure-blob-storage9
connectors9
google-cloud-storage8
cloud-storage8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vbalani002/kafka
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
confluentinc/kafka-connect-hdfs
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
Kafka Connect HDFS connector
Contributions:9 reviews, 37 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 1 month
sinkapache-kafkakafka-connectorconnectorkafka-connect-hdfs
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