Abhinav Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

India10 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Kafka Connect and multi-tenancy solutions.
Mentored engineers and conducted over 250 interviews.
Developed cloud control plane features for high throughput connectors.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS backend engineer with expertise in cloud solutions and data processing.

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C++CJavaRMatlabPythonMachine LearningData MiningLinuxPHPMySQL

About

I’m a senior engineer at Confluent working on Kafka Connect’s core platform. My work focuses on multi-tenancy, cloud control planes, and performance-critical connectors at scale. I spend a lot of time thinking about system boundaries, operability, and how design decisions age - along with mentoring engineers and helping grow the team through hiring.

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer 2

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Early engineer in Confluent India in the Kafka Connect team. Working on cloud control plane, multi-tenancy in fully managed connectors, efficient resource utilisation, novel features like previewing Connectors outputs, multiple high throughput connectors and so on.
Mentored multiple engineers to success, helping build the team and conducting 250+ interviews through my tenure here.

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Cloud Engineer

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 · 4 mos

Flipkart

Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Engineer in the FBF (Fulfilled by Flipkart) team working on systems powering inventory management in the warehouse on marketplace seller dashboard, as well as high throughput order path systems powering inventory management for hybrid fulfilment (FBF Lite).

Belong.co

Engineering Intern

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016 · 5 mos

Intern in the Data Analytics team working on automating and improving existing metrics pipelines and dashboards. Introduced Metabase to the team to revamp how the company managed data, as well as ideated and created R Shiny dashboards from scratch to improve existing processes.