Lokesh Shekar
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarLokesh Shekar is a Senior Engineering Manager at Confluent in Palo Alto focused on data streaming, schema management, and cloud-native platform engineering. He leads teams that built Confluent for Kubernetes and advanced Schema Registry capabilities—enabling lifecycle management of stateful apps, real-time schema linking across clouds, and broker-side schema validation. With 8 years of experience, he blends deep systems and networking roots from roles at Juniper, Cisco and embedded systems with hands-on cloud and container expertise. At Infoblox he designed policy managers, autoscaling Docker systems, and Route53‑to‑Grid synchronization, reflecting practical experience across AWS, Azure and GCP. A USC MS in Electrical Engineering (3.96 GPA), he’s known for translating complex distributed systems and data-quality constraints into resilient, scalable production products.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (42)
kafka-connect10
confluent10
connect10
kafka10
confluent-cloud10
confluent-platform10
docker-image9
sink9
producer9
ansible9
fabric9
apache-kafka8
network8
ksqldb8
subnet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lokesh-shekar/examples
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
demo-applicationsapache-kafkaapacheconfluent-platformkafka-connect
confluentinc/cp-ansible
May 2020 - May 2021
Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform
Contributions:20 reviews, 4 comments in 1 year
schema-registryksqlconfluent-cloudansiblerest-proxy
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