Venkat Kolli

Kafka Engineer @American Express

AZ, US

Working as a Kafka Engineer, leading and delivering multiple projects for Amex.Worked on kafka components like connectors, configuring the kafka topics, Service Accounts, log compaction.Extensively involved in various stages of testing Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance testing, and Performance Testing.Build Automated scripts for creating, deleting, ACL for kafka topics.Extensively used kafka connectors for the file generation. Developed Single Message Transforms for connectors to meet custom data models.Implemented REST Microservices using spring boot. Generated Metrics with method level granularity and Persistence using Spring AOP and Spring Actuator.Implemented REST Microservices using spring boot. Generated Metrics with method level granularity and Persistence using Micrometer.Deployed the kafka rest proxy, control center, connector, ksql on the AKS Cluster.Successfully migrated all the queues or topics from MQ to Kafka.Build Avro Schema and imported into the schema registry.Developed automation scripts for environment standup and release management for confluent kafka.Extensive used Confluent APIs to retrieve the data about the health of the topics.Upgrade the Rest proxy, Connectors, Control Center Image to the higher version.Extensive experience with web service calls both as consumer and provider.Strong experience in building CI/CD pipeline using Confluent CloudCLI.Extensive experience with Managed File Transfer tool.Confluent Kafka API lifecycle development and managementPerformance tuning the Kubernetes cluster based on the traffic. Experience in Agile Methodologies.