Chandan Kumar
Staff Product Specialist Apache NiFi at Cloudera
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolChandan Kumar is a Staff Product Specialist focused on Apache NiFi with 7 years of hands-on experience across Linux systems, RHEL support, and dataflow platform engineering. Starting as a Linux sysadmin and moving through Red Hat support into Hortonworks/Cloudera, he now bridges product engineering, support, and customers to optimize NiFi, NiFi Registry, MiNiFi and Edge Flow Manager deployments on-prem and in cloud. He routinely advises on cluster configuration, security and governance, and designs flow patterns tailored to real-world use cases while participating in backline troubleshooting and proactive best practices. Based in Bengaluru, he combines deep operational discipline from infrastructure management with product-facing expertise, enabling faster incident resolution and safer data flows. Outside work he volunteers and experiments with making "dumb computers understand feelings," reflecting a curiosity for human-centered automation and continual learning.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
RHCEBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at RAIPUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RAIPURPost graduate Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure and System Security, A, Post graduate Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure and System Security, A at Center for Development of Advance Computing
English, Hindi
Github Skills (56)
podman10
kubernetes10
docker10
linux10
container-image10
oci-container10
openshift10
openstack10
ansible10
python9
yaml9
dataplane9
operator9
k8s9
telemetry8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
raukadah/ci-framework
Mar 2023 - Mar 2026
CI Framework - used for CI, QE and Devs to run jobs in a converged way
Contributions:110 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years
raukadah/watcher-operator
Nov 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:292 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year
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