Tools & Technologies: Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, ksqlDB, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, AWS (EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, VPC), GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, PSC), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Harness, Java / Spring Boot, Python, PySpark, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk. • Design and build real-time pipelines in Apache Flink (DataStream, Table, and SQL APIs): event-time processing, watermarks, late-event handling, windowed aggregations (tumbling, hopping, session), and stream joins.