Lev Zemlyanov

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in designing and developing Kafka connectors.
Innovated accessible banking solutions at a leading fintech company.
Contributed significantly to open source projects in the Kafka ecosystem.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaBackend Development

Other Skills

Kafka ConnectAWSGCPAzureElasticsearchC++JavaPythonCC#JavaScriptScalaScrumMathematicsProgramming

About

Currently, I am a backend software engineer for Confluent working with Apache Kafka, designing Kafka connectors and building out Connect Cloud. Creator of https://www.calculateamt.com. I am a Purdue University graduate with dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics with two concentrations in machine learning and systems programming and a minor in philosophy. Other relevant work experience held was as a SWE intern at Google (Summer 2018), as a software engineering intern at the RND Group Inc. (Summer 2017) and as a firmware developer at Purdue University (Summer 2016).

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Additive

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs · New York, New York, United States

Worked on building out 0-1 products to innovate accessible banking for all.
Helped create the authentication and login session service from scratch.
Took ownership of the entire transaction dispute flow and innovated unique automation approaches to help scale.

Confluent

Backend Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, California

Worked on the Connect team, designing, developing, and maintaining highly robust and performant connectors thatmoved tens of thousands of records/s in and out of Apache Kafka.
Frequently implemented highly sought after customer requests such as Kerberos authentication for connectors,which resulted in many$100K+ deals.
Contributed to Apache Kafka by implementing features for Kafka Connect.
Won the Confluent Hackathon by converting the Confluent CLI into a shell, which greatly enhanced UX anddeveloper productivity. Consequently shipped it by popular request.
Maintained many connectors integrated with cloud technologies on AWS, GCP, and Azure and familiarized selfwith many cloud technologies such as S3/Blob Storage/GCS, cloud functions, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, etc.
Maintained the open source community almost singlehandedly for Confluent’s open source connectors: Elasticsearch, S3,HDFS, and JDBC.
Actively participate in the recruiting process having conducted 60+ interviews to date.

Apache KafkaKafka ConnectAWSGCPAzureElasticsearch+1