Shivji Kumar Jha

About Shivji Kumar Jha

Shiv is a Staff Engineer / Senior Manager at Nutanix and works on all things data platforms. Shiv is responsible for Apache Pulsar, NATS, Druid and Debezium and works on availability, scalability, observability, use cases, architecture, wrapper libraries, maintaining internal source code fork, contributing upstream etc. The data platforms are self hosted in AWS cloud and offered as a service to n nutanix products.Shiv is also a regular speaker at open source conferences having talked on 16 topics including MySQL replication internals, Apache Pulsar, Apache Bookkeeper, Apache Zookeeper and Event Sourcing. Below is a list of Shiv’s blog posts that have been published by different companies based on his work in open source interests include software architecture, web backend design, micro-service architecture and platform, distributed systems, data/stream stores and open source software in general.

Experience

1. Staff Engineer

   Nutanix

   Aug 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As the founding engineer of the data platform team, I grew it from the ground up into a strong group of 10+, shaping its vision, mentoring engineers, and driving hiring. I specialize in designing and scaling distributed data platforms—providing internal platform-as-a-service offerings for messaging, streaming, analytics, and time-series workloads used across 12 Nutanix products.1. Architecture & Enablement → Partnering with product teams and staff engineers to define data platform best practices, ensuring the right architecture choices for distributed systems.2. Systems at Scale → Designing, debugging, and benchmarking critical workloads (e.g, running ClickHouse on low-memory Kubernetes, integrating Apache Iceberg with ClickHouse, and optimizing analytics workloads in PostgreSQL).3. Open Source Engagement → Maintaining internal forks of Apache Pulsar, NATS, Apache Druid, and ClickHouse, contributing fixes and features upstream, and helping bridge cutting-edge open-source stacks into Nutanix products.4. Community & Evangelism → Active in the open-source and deep-tech ecosystem: I’ve delivered 30+ talks at Apache, CNCF, and Postgres conferences; organized 10+ meetups at Nutanix bringing together engineers in Bangalore; and regularly write/mentor to grow the ecosystem.5. Partnerships → Led strategic collaborations with ecosystem partners to bring enterprise-grade support for critical data platforms into Nutanix.6. Leadership & Mentorship → Building, mentoring, and scaling a high-performing team while driving cross-functional initiatives across engineering, product, and open-source communities.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Algorithm Design
• Unix
• Oracle
• Perl
• Operating Systems
• Databases
• Bazaar
• Eclipse
• Jsp
• Relational Databases
• Javascript
• C++
• Java
• Servlets
• Data Structures
• Css
• Shell Scripting
• Netbeans
• Core Java
• Networking
• Html
• C
• Algorithms
• Javafx
• Mysql
• Php
• Matlab
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Sql
• Linux