Neha Narkhede is an Indian American technology entrepreneur. She also works as a technology investor and consultant for several well-known international software companies. He co-founded Confluent, a streaming data technology company, in 2014, where he briefly served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). While working with LinkedIn, Neha Narkhede co-founded Apache Kafka, an open-source software platform. She is a board member of Confluent. In 2020, Forbes listed her as one of America’s Self-Made Women of the Year.
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Wiki/Biography
Neha Narkhede was born in 1985 (age 37 years; as in 2022) in Pune, Maharashtra. From 2002 to 2006, he pursued Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra. From 2006 to 2007, he earned a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. According to Neha Narkhede, she was gifted a computer by her parents at the age of eight. Since then, he loved working on computers and dreamed of becoming a tech-savvy one day. Once while talking to a media reporter, Neha Narkhede had said that her parents were the biggest inspiration in her life and they imbibed the value of education in her. Neha Narkhede said,
My parents did many things that still impact my life today. First of all he instilled in me the belief that I can do anything. Second, he taught me the value of education. Third, she ensured that I was exposed to female role models.”
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 4″
Weight (Approx): 55 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
His mother’s name is Kalpana Narkhede.
Neha Narkhede with her mother Kalpana Narkhede
husband and children
Neha Narkhede is married to Sachin Kulkarni.
Neha Narkhede with her husband Sachin Kulkarni
Address
Neha Narkhede lives in Palo Alto, California, United States.
livelihood
software professional
In February 2008, Neha Narkhede started working as a member of the technical staff at Oracle Corporation after completing her college studies. He worked with Oracle Corporation until February 2010. He was responsible for designing and implementing hierarchical faceted search. He then started working at LinkedIn as a software engineer in February 2010 and held this role until April 2011. In April 2011, Neha Narkhede was promoted to the position of Senior Software Engineer and she served in this position until April 2012. LinkedIn’s OLAP engine, distributed systems like Zookeeper and Kafka. Neha Narkhede was named Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn in June 2012. In June 2013, he was appointed to look after LinkedIn’s Leads, Streams and Infrastructure department, and he held the role until September 2014.
Neha Narkhede talking about Apache Kafka at a tech conference
apache kafka
In 2011, Neha Narkhede and her two colleagues June Rao and Jay Kreps founded a software platform called Apache Kafka. During this time she was working with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. According to Neha Narkhede, when he was working on a project in the company, the idea of developing Kafka as an open-source platform came to his mind.
Neha Narkhede during the Kafka Summit in 2019
Mixed
Neha Narkhede then co-founded Confluent (a Palo Alto-based startup) with her colleagues Jay Kreps and June Rao in September 2014 and started serving as its Chief Technology and Product Officer. He was named as a board member of Confluent in January 2020. Later, Confluent started operating as a B2B infrastructure enterprise under his guidance. According to Neha Narkhede, when she faced data access problems while working at the workplace and started investigating the shortcomings of technologies, she came up with the idea of a startup with two of her colleagues. While interacting with the media he talked about his knowledge about the new technology. Neha Narkhede said,
I talked to Jay Kreps, my colleague at the time, because he was thinking about the data access problem. I asked him if I could help work on a solution and that’s how we got started. We didn’t start by building technology. Instead we began examining existing technologies to understand their shortcomings. We concluded that no solution exists.”
Left to right – Neha Narkhede, Jay Kreps and June Rao
According to some media sources, in 2019, Confluent raised its business’s earnings to $125 million, bringing its total funding for the year to $206 million. The following year, under the leadership of Neha Narkhede and her team, Confluent increased its profits to $250 million, bringing the company’s total funding to $456 million. Confluent is used for data analysis and collection purposes by large companies including Goldman Sachs, Netflix, and Uber. Neha Narkhede once revealed in a media interview that her company collects data of other companies within milliseconds and works as a central nervous system for them. He said,
We see our technology as a central nervous system for companies that collects data and makes sense of it within milliseconds at scale. We believe virtually every company will benefit from this and we plan to deliver it to them.”
literary work
Neha Narkhede is a successful businesswoman in the world of technology. He co-authored the book Kafka: The Definitive Guide in 2017 with Gwen Shapira and Todd Palino to describe and describe the technologies created by Kafka.
Book Cover – Kafka The Definitive Guide, by Neha Narkhede
Startup Investors and Advisors
Apart from being a businesswoman and tech-savvy, Neha Narkhede also works as a technology consultant. He began working as a startup investor and advisor in March 2020. She works as a consultant for well-known software companies such as Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Netlist, and Common Room.
Neha Narkhede while attending a tech conference
Awards, Honors, Achievements
In 2017, Neha Narkhede was listed as one of the innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. In 2018, Forbes listed her as one of the top 50 women in the US and the world in tech. In 2018, she was the winner of the Oracle Groundbreaker Award at the Oracle Code One conference in San Francisco. In 2020, Forbes listed her at #33 on its list of “America’s Self-Made Women”. In 2022, Neha Narkhede was ranked India’s youngest self-made female entrepreneur by the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Neha Narkhede likes scuba diving and traveling in her free time. Speaking to the media, she said that she was an avid scuba diver and loved traveling around the world with her husband Sachin Kulkarni. Neha Narkhede said,
I love to travel and am an avid scuba diver. My husband and I list the best places to dive around the world, like the Great Blue Hole in Belize. There were a lot of sharks around so it was like a bit of an adrenaline rush.”
Neha Narkhede is enjoying scuba diving with her husband
- According to Neha Narkhede, successful Indian women entrepreneurs like Padmashree Warrier and Indira Nooyi are her role models. While talking to a media reporter in an interview, Neha told about the achievements of these businesswomen. He said,
I look to Padmashree Warrier, former CTO of Cisco, who is now CEO and founder of NIO, an electric car startup. I also respect Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo.”
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