Neha Narkhede

Co-Founder & CEO

2021 - Current

Building Oscilar -- a company to make the internet safer by protecting online transactions Read more about us here: https://oscilar.com/lp/announcement https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2023/03/30/exclusive-confluent-cofounder-neha-narkhedes-new-fraud-detecting-firm-oscilar-emerges-from-stealth/?sh=2fe280c11eab https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/30/oscilar-emerges-from-stealth-to-fight-transactions-fraud-with-ai/

Startup investor and advisor

2020

Investor/advisor to some fantastic companies: Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Tabular, Startree, Yugabyte, and more

Co-Founder, Board Member

2020

Co-founder, Chief Technology and Product Officer

2014 - 2020

Building a company for real-time data and Apache Kafka.

Lead, Streams Infrastructure

2013 - 2014

Built and led teams of fantastic engineers who built Kafka and Samza. I was responsible for one of the largest deployments of Kafka, processing hundreds of billions of events a day.

Principal Software Engineer

2012 - 2013

- Working on building and scaling LinkedIn's data pipeline to power billions of events across several terabytes of data per day. - Currently focussed on building fault tolerance in Apache Kafka. Details here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Replication

Senior Software Engineer

2011 - 2012

- Member of the Distributed Data Systems team at LinkedIn. Have worked on variety of distributed systems like LinkedIn's OLAP engine, Zookeeper and Kafka (distributed pub-sub messaging system). - One of the authors of Apache Kafka (http://incubator.apache.org/kafka) Some of my work includes - http://engineering.linkedin.com/kafka/first-apache-release-kafka-out - http://engineering.linkedin.com/27/project-kafka-distributed-publish-subscribe-messaging-system-reaches-v06

Software Engineer

2010 - 2011

Member of Technical Staff

2008 - 2010

- Lead engineer responsible for designing and implementing from scratch hierarchical faceted search in Oracle Text