About

Shankar Hiremath is an accomplished Engineering Manager II at Confluent with over 17 years of experience in designing, implementing, and product-ionizing infrastructure, frameworks, microservices, and tools required for CI/CD and Quality Assurance. He possesses expertise in open source technologies, distributed systems, and middleware testing, including Big Data Hadoop, HBase, Phoenix, Hive, Thrift, REST servers, and Kafka. Shankar has a strong experience in E2E test activities, including test requirement analysis, test design engineering methodologies, test strategy, execution, and its sufficiency and measurement. Shankar has a decade of experience in building world-class automation infrastructure, framework, microservices, and tools using the technologies such as Python, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, CI/CD, Jenkins, and DevOps. He has worked with top-tier companies, including Cloudera and Hortonworks, where he held senior positions such as Sr. Engineering Manager and Staff Software Engineer, respectively. Shankar holds a degree in Electronics and Communications from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, where he graduated in 2006. He has also completed a field of study in Electronics and Communications. Shankar's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, test, infra, CI/CD, Big Data, Microservices, Ansible, Apache Airflow, qa, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Hadoop, Kafka, Jenkins, DevOps, and Apache Hive. He is a highly skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.