Jun Rao

co-founder at Confluent

Confluent•San Jose, California, United States

Experience29+ Years

LevelLeadership

Executive Overview

I am an engineer and researcher with a background on distributed systems and databases. I have worked on a few open source projects including Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra, as well as proprietary systems such as IBM DB2. I am the co-author of more than 20 referenced research papers, and the co-inventor of more than a dozen U.S. software patents.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history

ConfluentCurrent
Sep 2014–Present· 12 yrs 2 mos
- Co-FounderCurrent
  Sep 2014–Present
The Apache Software FoundationCurrent
Jul 2011–Present· 15 yrs 4 mos
- Kafka committerCurrent
  Jul 2011–Present
ApacheCurrent
May 2009–Present· 17 yrs 6 mos
- Cassandra committerCurrent
  May 2009–Present
LinkedIn
May 2010–Sep 2014· 4 yrs 4 mos
- Senior Engineer, Software Development
  May 2010–Sep 2014
IBM
Sep 2000–May 2010· 9 yrs 8 mos
- Research Staff Member
  Sep 2000–May 2010
IBM Almaden Research Center
May 1999–Aug 1999· 3 mos
- Intern, Summer
  May 1999–Aug 1999
Microsoft
Jun 1998–Aug 1998· 2 mos
- Research intern
  Jun 1998–Aug 1998
Sybase Inc
May 1997–Aug 1997· 3 mos
- Intern, Summer
  May 1997–Aug 1997