Ganesh Datta

Senior Software Engineer

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India4 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable real-time data streaming systems.
Proven track record in optimizing cloud applications.
Strong foundation in data engineering and application development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a focus on data engineering and cloud applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaCloud ApplicationsData EngineeringRest ApisMobile Development

Other Skills

JavaSQLAWSKubernetesMicrosoft AzureAndroidFirebaseImage RecognitionEclipseTalendApache SparkSpring BootC (Programming Language)Data StructuresData Analytics

About

Currently working as SWE at Confluent in building the data intensive applications for processing real-time streaming data. Interested in building end-to-end application development. I have completed my Masters from BITS-Pilani in Computer Science & Engineering. Have strong skills on Data Engineering using Kafka and application development using Java and Golang. Worked on deploying the applications using CI/CD.

Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Software Engineer

Jul 2023 – Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Working as part of Kafka Connect team while building Cloud applications for streaming data into Kafka Clusters.
Improved the task unavailability by 50% during Kafka Connect cluster scale and restart events by pre-emptive schedule rebalance.
Designed and developed a fully managed AWS DynamoDB CDC Source connector for Confluent Connect Cloud.
Contributed to open-source Kafka JDBC Source Connector by adding key functional improvements.

Apache KafkaCloud ApplicationsREST APIsJavaSQL

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos

Optimized the Confluent Cloud Connect Kubernetes Operator by building a fault-tolerant multi-threaded system enabling concurrent execution of connector lifecycle events.
Improved the connector provisioning latency by 80% with better load balancing in multi-tenant clusters.

KubernetesJavaCloud Applications

Bits pilani, hyderabad campus

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

System Engineer

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos

Assistant System Engineer

May 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Worked as Developer in Data & Analytics group of Citi Commercial Bank - Data & Analytics Unit.
Maintained enterprise-scale data pipelines for financial reporting and customer analytics using robust ETL workflows.
Enabled data delivery to executive and management dashboards by building RESTful data services backed by optimized SQL queries and Java-based applications.
Led the migration of legacy big data workloads to cloud infrastructure, integrating and modernizing data pipelines to improve operational efficiency.

Microsoft AzureREST APIsSQLJavaData Engineering

University of hyderabad

Research Student Intern

Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Research Student Intern under Prof. Siba K Udgata as part of the Govt. of India funded research project "Development of Sensor Network based Adaptive Water Quality and Quantity Monitoring System (AquaSense)".
Developed an IoT integrated Android Application with Firebase database to get real-time data from
sensors
Used Image recognition to monitor water quality and notify users using Geofence for location based alerts.

AndroidFirebaseMobile Development