Sanskar Jhajharia
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarSanskar Jhajharia is a Senior Software Engineer with three years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems at Confluent, where he progressed from intern to senior engineer working on OAuth 2.0 testing and core platform features. He has strong foundations in C++, Java, JavaScript, Python and MySQL, and has applied them to backend storage work in high-profile open-source projects like Apache Kafka, contributing refactors, optimizations and tests to its storage layer. His background blends practical trading systems and real-time event processing (Swiggy, D. E. Shaw) with research in bioinformatics and ML-driven genome assembly, reflecting a rare mix of production-grade engineering and academic depth. A confident communicator and TA-turned-mentor, he excels in cross-functional teams and teaching large cohorts, and outside work he’s an avid reader and community volunteer who enjoys retro music and spiritual literature.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
javas10
storage10
kafka10
filesystem10
java10
scala10
jtest9
junit9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Jan 2024 - May 2026
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 61 PRs, 192 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sanskar primarily contributed to the storage module within the Apache Kafka repository, focusing on code cleanup and improvements. The commits involve modifications to core Java classes related to epoch handling, offset maps, and log segment management. These changes include refactoring, optimization, and bug fixes within critical components of Kafka's storage infrastructure. Furthermore, the user added and modified tests that confirm their contribution.
apache-kafkascalakafkajavastreaming
sjhajharia/kafka
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Mirror of Apache Kafka (sjhajharia)
Contributions:303 pushes, 64 branches in 2 years 6 months
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