Vishnu Sharma
Senior software engineer specializing in cloud-native, Java, and web development
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined February 2026
Summary
Experienced backend and web application engineer with long track record across multiple industries, currently working at Smart Pension and previously in senior roles at Mindbody and UnitedHealth Group. weekday+1
Active open-source contributor and maintainer: author and contributor to several GitHub projects, including device drivers and task-management tooling. github+1
Technical writer who publishes practical engineering posts on topics like Kubernetes, Kafka, databases, and performance tuning on Medium and a personal blog. medium+1
Community speaker and participant in cloud-native events (appears in CNCF Kubernetes Community Days Chennai speaker listing), indicating involvement in the Kubernetes/cloud-native community. cncf
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Kubernetes — Secret vs ConfigMap Secrets
May 1, 2020Technical article comparing Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps and how to use each for configuration and sensitive data.
Kafka — Consumer CommitFailedException for Revoked Partition Error Trace
May 1, 2020Post discussing Kafka consumer CommitFailedException when partitions are revoked and strategies to handle related errors.
MapR-DB — Querying Pro-tips
May 1, 2020Blog post with practical tips for querying MapR-DB and working with the MapR data platform.