Sanjay Awatramani

Software Engineer

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India20 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of experience in software architecture.
Expert in building high-performance distributed systems.
Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and SaaS architect with extensive experience in distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data StreamingCloud ScalabilityDistributed SystemsData ProcessingSoftware Development

Other Skills

KafkaKubernetesNetworkingCloud SolutionsWeb ServicesRedisData IngestionUI ImprovementImpalaData IntegrationSolution DesignWeb Application DevelopmentProduct ManagementIT ComplianceDebugging

About

Hands-on architect & lifelong learner with experience in building large scale distributed systems. Highlights: • Software architect with 16 years of industry experience. • Designing and developing distributed data processing and analytics systems for high volume/velocity data. • Successfully handling data sizes of 5M events/sec in production. • Architected systems for Redundancy, High Availability & Exactly once processing. • Expert in Kafka, Redis, SQLStream (real time streaming analytics), Kubernetes, Docker & Java. Technical skills: • Languages: Java, Scala, C++, VC++, C# .Net, ASP, VB • Big Data: Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark Streaming, Yarn, Zookeeper, Hive, Avro, AWS • Tools: Talend, Crystal Reports, Coverity, .Net Memory profiler • Middleware: Kafka, Oracle JMS, IBM MQ • Databases: Redis, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Clickhouse, Hbase, Druid, Hive, Impala, InfiniDB, Postgres, Netezza, Oracle, SQL Server

Experience

20 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Remote

Stepping into a charter-wide technical leadership role within Confluent Platform (CP), I am focused on aligning our technical strategy with growth goals and driving innovation across all engineering domains within Confluent Platform.

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Feb 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Remote

My work at Confluent focuses on bridging the gap between on-premises stability and cloud scalability, ensuring data flows seamlessly—and securely—across any environment.
Led the Unified Stream Manager (USM) from initial concept to full implementation. This was a high-stakes, open-ended initiative requiring deep collaboration across 10+ cross-functional teams to build a hybrid product that links Confluent Platform with Confluent Cloud.
Tech Lead for the Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) team, streamlining how enterprises deploy and manage data streaming on Kubernetes.
Designed the private networking solution for the Confluent Cloud Schema Registry and lead the Stream Governance India team.

KafkaKubernetesCloud ScalabilityData Streaming

Guavus

3 roles

Senior Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Architect for multiple solutions built under MIQ umbrella and technical mentor for two agile squads
Designed 850+ node geographically distributed cluster to process 5M events/sec
Designed cache backed highly available web service for response times in single digit milliseconds
Designed end to end exactly once across a 3-stage pipeline
Improved aggregation mechanism for low cardinality data resulting in 2x memory savings.
Designed Redis data model that stores data for 20M subscribers

Distributed SystemsData ProcessingWeb ServicesRedis

Principal Engineer

Mar 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Involved in MarketingReflex data ingestion design
Improved UI responsiveness by replacing Hive with Impala.

Data IngestionUI ImprovementImpalaData Processing

Lead Technology

Sep 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Data Integration for new customers of ServiceReflex.
Technical lead for Workforce, contributed to solution design and creating data model.
Developed multiple PoCs for Big data & BI use cases.

Data IntegrationSolution DesignData Processing

Net-square

Software Architect

Apr 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

ServerDefender VP is a web application firewall for applications running on IIS Server.
Product owner for ServerDefender along with managing Dev & QA team and planning for product roadmap.
Key role in design and development of new features.
Took over reins of the product from alpha release to v3.0 beta.
Instrumental in improving stability, performance, increasing throughput
Ensuring customer satisfaction.

Web Application DevelopmentProduct ManagementSoftware Development

Symantec

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2009 – Mar 2010 · 3 mos

‘Control Compliance Suite’ is a group of integrated products in the IT Compliance space.
Implemented new features in RMS - a key infra module for CCS.
Instrumental in redesigning Dashboards module.
Advanced debugging to find issues like heap corruption, memory leaks, etc...
Involved in improving performance, making the product more robust & scalable.

IT ComplianceDebuggingSoftware Development