Confluent Champion: Engineering a Better Developer Experience a Test at a Time

Akshatha, a Senior Software Engineer at Confluent in Bangalore, focuses on enhancing developer productivity through her work on TestBreak, an internal build and test analytics dashboard. Her role emphasizes improving build and test health, identifying flaky tests, and leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline test triaging. Since joining Confluent, she has advanced her technical skills in building scalable and maintainable systems, particularly in continuous integration and deployment pipelines. She values the collaborative culture at Confluent, where continuous learning and creativity are encouraged, and she plans to further explore AI to automate developer workflows. Akshatha appreciates the company's supportive environment, which balances technical challenges with cross-team collaboration and respects work-life balance. Looking forward, she aims to take on larger projects and contribute to mentoring, while also focusing on scaling systems and advancing AI integration in developer tools.