Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

• 1. Designed and implemented core components of the K2 Group Coordinator, enabling Kafka to operate in a stateless, microservices-based architecture
• 2. Built stateless coordination service backed by a replicated state machine, ensuring correctness and fault tolerance in distributed systems
• 3. Drove major parts of the effort to adapt and reuse K1 group coordination logic for K2, introducing new semantics required for a decoupled architecture
• 4. Contributed to architectural decisions and iterated on designs to productionize the system under evolving requirements
• 5. Leveraged existing simulation-based testing frameworks to validate correctness under distributed failure scenarios
• 6. Mentored engineers across levels and contributed to technical direction for complex distributed systems

May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• 1. Contributed to the design and development of Tableflow, enabling Kafka data to be materialized into open table formats (Iceberg/Delta) and improving interoperability between streaming and analytical systems
• 2. Implemented SPIFFE-based service-to-service authentication for Kafka brokers using JWT SVIDs, enabling secure and scalable identity verification in a zero-trust environment
• 3. Designed and built produce-consume audit logging, enhancing traceability and enabling compliance for distributed Kafka workloads