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Neha Narkhede
Founder of Oscilar Inc
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Neha Narkhede is the Co-founder & CEO of Oscilar and a Co-founder & Board Member of Confluent, known for her role as the Original Creator of Apache Kafka. She has made significant contributions to the field of distributed systems and big data, and is actively involved in startup investing and advising, focusing on sectors like Travel, Cybersecurity, and AI.
Narkhede's career highlights include her pivotal role in creating Apache Kafka, a widely-used distributed streaming platform, and her involvement in the growth and success of Confluent, a prominent company in the data streaming industry.
Work Experience
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.
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Raised $455,900,000.00 from Axevil Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Junipero Capital.
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
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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
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Member of Technical Staff
2008 - 2010
- Lead engineer responsible for designing and implementing from scratch hierarchical faceted search in Oracle Text
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.