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Hometown: Pune, Maharashtra

Age: 37 Years

Profession: Entrepreneur

Some lesser known facts about Neha Narkhede

Neha Narkhede is an Indian American technology entrepreneur, investor and consultant. She is the co-founder of Confluent, a streaming data technology company and has served as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He is one of the founding members of Apache Kafka, an open source software platform. She serves as a board member of Confluent. Neha Narkhede was listed by Forbes as one of America’s Self-Made Women in 2020.

When she was eight, her parents brought her a computer, and then she started dreaming of working with technology. In a media interaction, she revealed that her parents inspired a lot in her life right from her childhood. Neha Narkhede said,

My parents did many such things which still influence my life. First he instilled in me the belief that I can do anything. Second, he taught me the value of education. Third, he made sure that I came in contact with female role models.

Soon after completing her formal education, Neha Narkhede started working as a technical staff member Oracle Corporation in February 2008 and served in this position till February 2010. In Oracle, she was responsible for

In February 2010, Neha Narkhede joined LinkedIn as its software engineer and served in the position till April 2011. He was then promoted to the rank of Senior Software Engineer in April 2011, and served until April 2012. At LinkedIn, he worked in

Neha Narkhede talking about Apache Kafka at a technical conference

According to Neha Narkhede, she follows Padma Shri Warrior and Indra Nooyi and considers them as her role models. She talked about these businesswomen of India in a media interview. He said,

I look up to Padmashree Warrier, ex-CTO of Cisco, who is now CEO and founder of electric car startup NIO. I also look up to Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo.”

In 2011, when Neha Narkhede was working at LinkedIn, she created the Apache Kafka platform, along with Jun Rao and Jay Krepps. Reportedly, they were working on a project in the company and came up with the idea to develop Kafka as an open-source platform.

Neha Narkhede attending a technical conference

In September 2014, Neha Narkhede co-founded Confluent, a software venture and began working as its Chief Technology and Product Officer. In January 2020, he was appointed as a board member of Confluent, a Palo Alto-based startup. He founded it along with Rao and Craps. Later, he decided to start Confluent as a business to business infrastructure company. In a media interaction, she revealed how she got the idea to leave LinkedIn and start her own venture. Neha Narkhede said,

I spoke to Jay Craps, my colleague at the time, as he was thinking about the problem of data access. I asked him if I could help him work on a solution and that’s how we started. We didn’t start with building technology. Instead we began by examining the technologies that existed to understand their shortcomings. We concluded that no solution existed.”

From left to right – Neha Narkhede, J Craps and June Rao

Neha Narkhede is a businesswoman as well as an accomplished writer. In 2017, he published a book titled Kafka: The Definitive Guide with Gwen Shapira and Todd Palino. This book describes all the techniques created by Kafka.

Neha Narkhede’s book cover – Kafka The Definitive Guide

In March 2020, Neha Narkhede started working part-time as a startup investor and consultant and started mentoring several renowned technology-oriented companies such as.

According to Neha Narkhede, she loves scuba diving and traveling to far-flung places across the world. She talked about her favorite leisure activities in a media interview. He said,

I love to travel and am an avid diver. My husband and I make lists of cool places to dive around the world, like the Great Blue Hole in Belize. There were a lot of sharks around so it was an adrenaline rush. ,

Neha Narkhede enjoying scuba diving with husband

In 2019, Confluent raised $125 million in business, increasing its total funding during the year to $206 million. Neha Narkhede and her team raised $250 million in business in April 2020, taking its total funding to $456 million.

Neha Narkhede during the Kafka Summit in 2019

Well-known companies such as Goldman Sachs, Netflix and Uber often use Confluent for data analysis and aggregation purposes. Once, in a media interaction, he explained the purpose of his company while working on data processing. He said,

We see our technology as a central nervous system for companies that collect data and make sense of it at scale, within milliseconds. We think this will benefit almost every company and we plan to bring it to them.