Software Engineer Sanjana Kaundinya on Moving from the Classroom to Confluent

Sanjana Kaundinya, a software engineer on Confluent’s Apache Kafka Global team, describes her work building distributed systems for multi-region Kafka data replication, including Cluster Linking, Replicator, and Multi-Region Clusters, which support enterprise needs such as regulatory compliance, migration, backup, and disaster recovery. After joining Confluent as a new graduate attracted by Kafka, distributed systems, and the company’s approachable culture, she began on the Replicator team before moving in 2020 to work on Cluster Linking and Confluent Cloud alongside experienced Apache Kafka contributors. She helped support the general availability launch of Cluster Linking in Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform 7.0 and is now focused on improving its metadata-store performance. Kaundinya highlights lessons in extensible software design, testing, working within evolving codebases, Scala, and balancing product requirements, while identifying consensus-building and sustaining a collaborative culture as ongoing challenges. She is particularly interested in Confluent’s move toward user-focused multi-region replication, migration, and disaster-recovery services that reduce the need for customers to understand the underlying Kafka technology.

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