Harish Vishwanath Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, Us

I support a team of ~40+ passionate engineers and leaders that are responsible for control plane and orchestration for Confluent's Cloud Native Kafka service (Kora). My teams develop and run metadata system for Kafka (KRaft), global replication (Cluster Linking), load balancing/workload placement in the data plane (self balancing clusters) and lifecycle management for Kafka.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Tech lead -> Senior Manager -> Director. Incubated, built and grew Cisco's internal PaaS (Dragonfly) infrastructure for Cloud, On-Prem and Hybrid deployments supporting Cisco enterprise networking businesses. This platform powers 5+ cloud SaaS offers and 15K+ on-prem Cisco DNAC deployments contributing to an ARR of over $1B+.- Built a team of 20+ highly skilled and passionate engineers from ground up. Subsequently assumed responsibility for additional teams with an organization size of 45+ engineers and managers. - Developing people, strategy, vision and architecture for Core Infrastructure Group.- At a high level, the platform encompasses the following subsystems: - Cluster Control Plane and Services: Kubernetes native custom lifecycle APIs to manage application workloads and platform dependencies. - Managed Services: Provide distributed messaging and storage systems as a service. Responsible for automated provisioning, service discovery, HA, credential management, backup and restore operations for MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ. - Cluster Infrastructure : GitOps based infrastructure as code platform. Build and lifecycle manage secure and compliant Kubernetes clusters in AWS. - Continuous Delivery as a Service: GitOps based, declarative, policy driven application roll out infrastructure. - Observability Stack: Comprehensive and centralized observability infrastructure to instrument, collect and visualize metrics and logs. - Management Plane: Single pane management infrastructure for fleet of Dragonfly based clusters across cloud and on-prem deployments. Manage workloads, troubleshoot and triage incidents. - App Containers: SDKs and frameworks to develop microservices based applications in Python, Java, NodeJS and Go.- Tech Stack: Python, Go, Kubernetes, PaaS, AWS, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, gRPC, Terraform, Linux.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Built Cisco’s edge processing framework – Cisco IOx. Cisco IOx platform leverages spare compute, memory and network resources in Cisco’s routers and switches and enables deploying third party applications right along side networking OS, unleashing edge computing use cases in enterprise and IOT networking. - IOx provides unified application abstractions and can lifecycle manage these applications using different isolation technologies depending on platforms such as simple processes, LXC, Docker or full blown VMs.- Built concurrent and RESTful api interfaces offering application and device management capabilities. - Built and supported a team of 4+ highly skilled engineers.- Tech Stack: Python, RESTful Services, LXC, Docker, libvirt, Virtualization technologies, Container Security etc.,

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

- Responsible for end to end product development at Ingersoll Rand specializing in software design, architecture and rapid implementation- Hire and build high performance teams- As Lead Engineer, I contributed to various projects across Residential/Commercial security and Climate Control Systems.- Designed and developed Remote Management Services – capable of fully managing BACnet/IP, Modbus and CAN devices over internet. - Designed and developed Small Commercial Converged Controller which provided 4 door access control, I/O control, Lighting/HVAC, fire panel and energy meter integration offering a single box solution to manage small business facilities.- Developed “NFC Wallet” application using J2ME for Nokia 6212 Classic phone, offering hospitality businesses to remotely send secure credentials to their customers to open their hotel rooms. - Helped achieve significant increase in storage and retrieval performance from 1000 to over 200K users for Schlage biometric time and attendance system.- Tech Stack: Embedded linux, C, Python, Michrochip/ARM controllers, BACnet, Modbus etc.,- Research and pioneer induction of new technologies, platforms and software development practices

- Independent contributor handling development and sustenance of a large and complex product platform- Process owner for critical platform activities- Helped migrate Manulife Japan (MLJ), a big client of CSC from expensive Mainframe environment to Windows Server based environment. This allowed CSC to continue to have MLJ’s business.- Wrote python based software to adapt and migrate huge datasets from Mainframe to Windows Server environments.- Responsible for solving key migration issues such as EBCDIC vs ASCII, DB2 tuning, JCL / CICS migration etc.,- Tech Stack: Python, Autosys, Microfocus Platform, COBOL, IBM Mainframes, ConnectDirect etc.,- Technical guide and mentor for developers- Subject matter expert for Mainframe to Mid-tier platform migrations

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

B.E, Information Science

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