Kumar Mallikarjuna

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in microservices and distributed systems.
  • Led significant Kubernetes optimizations improving scalability.
  • Developed high-impact event-driven pipelines.
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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaGolangPostgresql

Other Skills

JavaQuarkusGuiceMongoDBRedisApache DruidKubernetesMachine LearningTeam LeadershipTeam BuildingNumPyScikit-LearnDjangojQueryJavaScript

About

Hi, I'm a passionate software developer with a strong foundation in microservices and distributed systems. I aspire to build systems that scale and deliver value.

Experience

4 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Built core CP Flink data processing, catalog, and savepoint management features
  • Led observability for CP Flink, integrating Flink metrics with Confluent’s telemetry stack
  • Drove reliability and releases for CE Flink / CMF, stabilizing e2e pipelines and fixing high-impact issues

Software Engineer

Jan 2024Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Led large-scale Kubernetes optimization, including workload delivery design, phased patching automation, and operator-based testing, improving scalability, reliability, and test efficiency by up to 5×
  • Drove infrastructure modernization by migrating Kafka clusters to Graviton3 and automating node pool recovery, cutting infrastructure costs by 10% and operational overhead by 50%

Nirmata

Software Engineer

Jul 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Owned and scaled core infrastructure including cluster management, service observability, the events pipeline, and Kafka, driving platform reliability and enabling sustained growth across critical systems
  • Delivered high-impact initiatives such as a event-driven pipeline cutting sync latency by 6×, a database load-balancing middleware reducing database load by 12%, and a Kubernetes operator for Kyverno, powering customer acquisition and retention through optimized distributed workflows
JavaGolangApache KafkaQuarkusGuiceMongoDB

Nutanix

Member Of Technical Staff Intern

Jan 2022Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed an end-to-end ingestion pipeline for supporting Kubernetes on Nutanix’s cloud cost management using Go, gRPC, Redis, Postgres, Apache Druid, AWS
  • Designed and developed a low-footprint agent for platform-independent cluster data harvesting
  • Built a suite of microservices for receiving, enriching, and ingesting harvested data into Druid
GolangPostgreSQLRedisApache Druid

Nirmata

Software Engineering Intern

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos

  • Added leader election for Kyverno’s preimage, directly reducing the overall load time in high availability Kyverno deployments
  • Developed features like custom JMESPath functions, high availability Secrets synchronizations, and escaped variables/references to allow efficient policy management
GolangKubernetes

Nanyang technological university

ML Research Assistant

Jul 2021Dec 2021 · 5 mos

  • Integrated the Kaldi C++ x-vector System into PyTorch to facilitate end-to-end training with an existing decoder and achieved 3% DER improvement over the previous system
  • Reduced the inference compute for the developed end-to-end pipeline by performing input segmentation on large data flushes based on minimal label contrast in Two-Speaker Diarization
  • Engineered a tool for cross-platform migration of Kaldi model dumps to PyTorch

Oracle

Project Intern

Jun 2021Jul 2021 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed auto-handling of empty payloads for uncluttered Oracle Managed File Transfer transactions using Java, Oracle Metadata Services, and Oracle Database XE
  • Designed privileged callbacks for secure file transfer administration
  • Developed a proof-of-concept for direct file permissions handling at endpoints

Ottonomyio

Autonomous Robotics and AI Intern

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos

  • Designed an efficient real-time semantic segmentation solution for autonomous rovers using PyTorch
  • Demonstrated an AWS based PoC

Gnu project

Student Software Developer (Google Summer of Code)

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos

  • Added an exhaustive HTTP/2 and OCSP testing extension to Wget2’s testsuite
  • Optimized the implementation through ASAN, Valgrind, and GitLab CI/CD, and analyzed network traffic using Wireshark
  • Wrote dockerfiles and shell scripts for the generation of DER certificates and responses
  • Increased code coverage for HTTP by 25.0% and TLS by 18.5%

Indian institute of remote sensing (iirs), indian space research organization (isro)

Research Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Dehradun, India

  • Developed a Deep Learning solution for semantic segmentation of buildings in very high-resolution UAV images
  • Created a tool for collective analysis of thermal photos

Wiztute

Backend Developer

Dec 2018Jan 2019 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Designed and developed the backend from scratch
  • Added payment gateway
  • Integrated video conferencing module
  • Created REST APIs for scalable and stable access
  • Deployed MVP on Google Cloud

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Aug 2017Jun 2022

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science - MSc — Mathematics

Aug 2017Jun 2022

Mount Carmel School, Dwarka

High School

Jan 2015Jan 2017

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