# Prince Mahajan

> Principal Engineer II at Confluent; Ex-Googler

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/princemahajan

Prince Mahajan is a software engineer on the core Kafka Team at Confluent. He is an expert in distributed systems, replication protocols, and stream processing systems. Prince is an accomplished researcher who received his doctorate from University of Texas at Austin and has published at top tier systems and database conferences. Prior to Confluent, Prince built low latency stream processing systems and Ad Serving systems operating at massive scale and low latency at Google.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer II at Confluent @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California
Part of AdServing infrastructure team responsible for serving Ads on several Google-owned properties like Google.com, Youtube with tight latency budget and large QPS.

### Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View
TL in Data Infrastructure and Analytics group (formerly Ads Data Infrastructure). Founder and lead of a new highly scalable streaming infrastructure for generating very low-latency statistics (involving log-joins, DB joins, and low latency aggregation) for business critical use-cases in and outside Google.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Member of Evenflow team that powered critical Ads metrics used for Ads reporting, billing, and internal use cases at Google.
designed a bandwidth-aware reactive system for scheduling copies of big data over WAN to drastically improve reliability while radically reducing WAN bandwidth utilization.

### Postdoctoral Researcher @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | mountain view
Worked on Paxos. Created a new storage layer optimized for a large Ads use case to drive significant resource savings.

### GRA @ University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2005 – Jan 2012


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science (Distributed Systems)
The University of Texas at Austin

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prince-mahajan-ab470b17

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Last updated: 2026-04-12