| Streaming and data platforms |
| Apache Kafka(brokers, clients, connect) | | | | | Daily driver for 3+ years. SME across producer and consumer tuning, exactly-once, tiered storage. |
| Confluent Cloud and Platform | | | | | RBAC, Schema Registry, Stream Governance, ksqlDB, Tableflow. |
| Apache Flink(SQL and DataStream) | | | | | Production POCs. Watermarks, state, exactly-once end to end. |
| CDC(Debezium, Golden Gate, Fivetran) | | | | | Delivered 5+ enterprise CDC pipelines. Oracle, Postgres, MySQL sources. |
| GenAI and LLM integration(agents, RAG, tool use) | | | | | SME workstream sponsor. 15 reusable artifacts shipped across the SE org, reuse-tracked. |
| Cloud and infra |
| AWS(EKS, MSK, IAM, S3) | | | | | Primary cloud for customer deployments. Comfortable in console and Terraform. |
| Kubernetes | | | | | Deploying Confluent for K8s, operator patterns, resource tuning. |
| Docker and Compose | | | | | Local dev environments, demo stacks, CI test rigs. |
| Languages and tools |
| Python | | | | | POCs, integration scripts, enablement artifacts. Daily use. |
| TypeScript / JavaScript | | | | | Full-stack for side projects (Next.js, React Native). |
| SQL and Streaming SQL | | | | | Flink SQL, ksqlDB, Snowflake, Postgres. |
| Leadership and management |
| People management | | | | | 12-member team, 95% engagement score (highest in org). |
| Hiring and onboarding | | | | | Scaled team 15 to 37 across 3 theatres. Onboarding framework cut time-to-live 50%. |
| Coaching and mentorship | | | | | 1:1s, career plans, technical uplift. Two direct reports promoted this year. |
| Go-to-market |
| MEDDPICC and forecasting | | | | | Own pipeline health, deal inspection. Zero missed quarters. |
| Enterprise demos and POCs | | | | | Delivered 100+ enterprise demos. Still runs the technical POCs personally. |
| Executive communication | | | | | Regular business reviews with VPs and CXOs. |