Sandyarani Chinapuram

KMCCorp India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India

Marriott International, Inc. Bethesda, MD

Software Engineer

dX Confluent Cloud

Supported Confluent Cloud infrastructure deployment and operations using Terraform for scalable and consistent Kafka provisioning.
Tuned and configured Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud clusters to ensure optimal performance, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability.
Managed daily operations and lifecycle of Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability and platform reliability.
Led Kafka platform upgrades along with Java, RHEL, and AWS infrastructure enhancements to maintain security and leverage new features.
Deployed and managed 200+ Kafka topics with Avro schemas using Schema Registry for structured, high-throughput streaming.
Provisioned and maintained 15+ Kafka connectors (source/sink) for integrating with systems like Snowflake, Salesforce, MQ, and HTTP endpoints.
Researched and implemented Kafka architecture improvements to boost pipeline resilience and efficiency.
Enforced Kafka security using SSL, SASL, and ACLs, and automated stale ACL cleanup with custom APIs.
Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) to ensure secure and compliant access to Kafka resources.
Built end-to-end Kafka observability using Dynatrace and Splunk, enabling real-time anomaly detection and cluster health monitoring.
Reduced incident response times by analyzing logs/metrics and setting up threshold-based alerting and automated ticketing.
Collaborated with DevOps, security, and application teams to integrate Kafka into critical business workflows and enterprise systems.
Promoted Kafka best practices and operational maturity by sharing knowledge and supporting internal adoption.

• Gained hands-on experience in various software programs, increasing proficiency and expanding technical skill set.