Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Investor/advisor to some fantastic companies: Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Tabular, Startree, Yugabyte, and more

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

Sep 2014 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Building a company for real-time data and Apache Kafka.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Built and led teams of fantastic engineers who built Kafka and Samza. I was responsible for one of the largest deployments of Kafka, processing hundreds of billions of events a day.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr

• Working on building and scaling LinkedIn's data pipeline to power billions of events across several terabytes of data per day.
• Currently focussed on building fault tolerance in Apache Kafka. Details here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Replication

Apr 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr

• Member of the Distributed Data Systems team at LinkedIn. Have worked on variety of distributed systems like LinkedIn's OLAP engine, Zookeeper and Kafka (distributed pub-sub messaging system).
• One of the authors of Apache Kafka (http://incubator.apache.org/kafka)
• Some of my work includes
• http://engineering.linkedin.com/kafka/first-apache-release-kafka-out
• http://engineering.linkedin.com/27/project-kafka-distributed-publish-subscribe-messaging-system-reaches-v06

Feb 2010 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

Feb 2008 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs

• - Lead engineer responsible for designing and implementing from scratch hierarchical faceted search in Oracle Text