About

Vinay Eswara is a highly experienced Software Architect at Confluent who specializes in the design and deployment of high throughput, high availability, distributed systems on the cloud. With over 21 years of relevant experience, Vinay has a proven track record of conceiving, building, deploying, and troubleshooting complex software systems. Vinay is a passionate engineer who is dedicated to building extensible, diagnosable software that is operationally simple to manage, debug, deploy, and maintain. He has filed seven patents on cloud, streaming high throughput data processing, and Internet of Things, and has published two papers on RIOTNet (on IOT) at IEEE and Conflux (on high throughput reliable stream processing) at CMG. Vinay is a collaborative team player who enjoys mentoring and working with high-energy, passionate teams that holistically deliver value across the organizational ecosystem. He has extensive experience working with message buses such as RMQ and Kafka, NOSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB, RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres, and programming languages such as Java, Scala, Clojure, and C++. He is also skilled in memory and performance optimization, virtualization (vSphere), and text search (Lucene, ElasticSearch). Prior to joining Confluent, Vinay worked as a Staff Engineer II at VMware, where he was responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of a high throughput data collection and analysis framework for provisioning, metering, and monitoring. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer and a Staff Engineer at VMware. Vinay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University. He is well-versed in various technologies and tools, including MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kafka, Postgres, Clojure, Scala, and Java. With his extensive experience and expertise, Vinay is a valuable asset to any organization looking to build and deploy complex software systems.