Shikhar Bhushan

Shikhar Bhushan is a systems engineer specializing in streaming infrastructure, distributed systems, and serverless technologies. During his tenure at Facebook, he focused on core data infrastructure by developing a highly scalable key-value store designed to manage massive volumes of internal platform information. He subsequently transitioned to Etsy, where he was responsible for building and optimizing large-scale retrieval systems to support the core search functionality of the company's global e-commerce marketplace. Bhushan also contributed significantly to the development of enterprise streaming data platforms at Confluent. While there, he specifically engineered components for the Kafka Connect framework to facilitate robust data integration across diverse server environments. His technical background centers on designing, deploying, and maintaining complex data architecture, with a current professional focus on advancing distributed systems and high-throughput streaming infrastructure for large-scale modern technology organizations.