About

Sushant Mahajan is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the industry. He currently works at Confluent as a Senior Software Engineer in the Kafka platform team. Prior to joining Confluent, Sushant worked at Amazon (AWS) as a Software Development Engineer II in the Search Services team. He was responsible for designing, troubleshooting, and enhancing features for the said managed service. His experience also includes working as a Software Developer at SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. where he focused on developing scalable applications for the cloud in the domain of Platform as a service (PaaS), with fundamental concerns being design, performance, and best industry practices. Sushant holds an MTech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. His fields of interest include Cryptography, Software Architecture, Cloud computing, and Machine Learning. He has worked with a wide range of technologies including JAVA(J2SE), C/C++, Python, Linux(intermediate), Lisp, Golang, go, Spring, Web Scripting, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, MySql, Postgresql, nodejs, git, kubernetes, k8s, and Docker. Sushant has been granted three patents and has worked on several academic projects, including his Masters Project on the analysis and applications of homomorphic encryption schemes to apply machine learning and statistical algorithms on encrypted data. He has also worked on other significant academic projects, including a neural network classifier for email spam detection and regression for demand prediction. Overall, Sushant is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with expertise in a wide range of technologies and fields. He is passionate about cryptography, software architecture, and machine learning and is always looking for new and innovative ways to apply his skills and knowledge to solve complex problems.