Lokesh Shekar Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

- Leading an Engineering team responsible for providing Stream Governance Platform (https://www.confluent.io/product/stream-governance/). Its a cloud-native, fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka and real time data. Currently available on AWS, GCP and Azure.We help customers deliver trusted, high quality data streams and maintain real-time data integrity with explicitly defined data contracts and schema management for your streaming data usingSchema Registry: Define and enforce universal data standards that enable scalable data compatibility.Schema Validation: Verify, on the broker side, that messages use valid schemas when assigned to a specific destination topic.Schema Linking: Share schemas across cloud and hybrid environments that sync in real time.Data Quality Rules: Create customizable rules to enforce data semantics and avoid data quality issues- Previously led a team building Confluent for Kubernetes, a product that simplifies running Confluent Platform (Kafka, KSQL, Connect, to name a few) as a cloud-native system on Kubernetes, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Confluent for Kubernetes automates deployment, management, and scaling of Confluent Platform clusters at scale, managing their complete lifecycle. It is used at a massive scale as part of our managed service, Confluent Cloud.To know more about how Confluent for Kubernetes provides Life cycle Management of complex stateful applications such as Kafka, providing seamless rolling upgrade, elasticity, and scaling aspects, please visit https://www.confluent.io/confluent-operator/Our vision is to build a robust, distributed cloud-agnostic control plane with Confluent Platform's self-healing and auto-scaling capabilities.

San Francisco Bay Area

- One of the founding engineers for building Control Plane for Confluent Cloud (Hosted and Managed SAAS offering of Confluent Platform)https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/

Santa Clara

- Developed a platform for application message delivery from Cloud to Onprem devices.

Santa Clara

- Working on 'Infoblox DNS Firewall as a Service' which is a AWS cloud-based recursive DNS infrastructure. It is based on microservices architecture using Docker containers and developed in an agile methodology.- Developed Policy Manager for fetching the user policies and threat feed, creating and distributing relevant configuration to containers.- Designed and implemented monitoring, metric collection and auto scaling of Docker containers.- Implemented synchronization of AWS Route53 DNS zones and record sets into Infoblox Grid using AWS Route53 APIs for Hybrid Cloud deployments.Programming Language: Golang and PythonCloud: AWS and Azure.Technologies: Docker, SaaS architecture.

Sunnyvale

- Involved in the design, development and support for layer 2 and layer 3 Multicast solution in Control Plane on QFabric (Fabric based Data Center Switch) product.- Implemented ‘fabric-optimized-distribution’ feature to increase the maximum supported L3 multicast flows. - Developed ‘make-before-break’ multicast feature of creating new multicast fabric paths before tearing down old paths. - Worked on several other features and enhancements to provide a highly scalable, highly available distributed system with faster convergence.

San Jose, California

- Built a basic prototype for network virtualization using Software Defined Networking concepts for R&D team. - Worked on REST APIs, REST server/client using staff framework, Onix controller (Openflow) and mininet.

San Jose, Ca

- Implemented passive measurement of ‘one-way delay’ performance metric in the media monitoring component of Cisco IOS using C on UNIX platform. - Data plane changes include packet selection, data extraction and time stamping. Control plane changes include NTP synchronization, NetFlow export, data storage and correlation to calculate the metric.

Bengaluru Area, India

- Implemented Network Communication Software Component to handle raw value acquisition of numerous CAN messages and their subsequent physical value conversion. - Creating Interfaces, error diagnosis, bus off, power on and plausibility monitoring. - Responsibilities included software requirement analysis, high level and low level designing, coding using C and C++ programming languages, debugging and unit testing of the components.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering, 3.96/4

Activities and Societies: MS Honors ProgramCourses: Operating Systems, Probabilistic Models in Computer System Design, Computer Networks.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE Member