# Akhilesh C

> Engineering @ Confluent

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akhileshc

Anything distributed systems, file systems, storage and scale.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Lead for Confluent Kafka's Networking and Security Stack. 
* Working on next-generation network stack for Confluent's cloud native engine for Apache Kafka.
* Development of ClusterLinking for Confluent Kafka service. More details at: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/multi-dc-deployments/cluster-linking/index.html

* KRaft support for Apache Kafka
* Migration from Zookeeper to KRaft for Apache Kafka

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Aurora Storage.

* Multimaster support for Aurora.
* Global Databases support for Aurora.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Nutanix
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Seattle
Part of Core Data Path at Nutanix. Work involves playing with Distributed systems, Scalable I/O, File Systems, Snapshots, Data Transformation techniques, System Health.

### Member Technical Staff @ NetApp
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
Worked in development of NFS, Content Repository, Snapmirror in NetApp's ONTAP OS.

### Extreme Blue Intern @ IBM
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Developed Life Cycle Manger for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Projects in Cognos Environment. This tool is developed as a suite of tools with RESTful architecture on IBM Rational Jazz Platform and GUI is developed using Dojo framework.


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
State University of New York, Stony Brook


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akhileshchg
- Portfolio: http://www.fsl.cs.stonybrook.edu/~akhilesh

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Last updated: 2026-04-12