Connecting 30 millions NRIs worldwide
Most trusted Name in the NRI media
NRI PEOPLE- OUR NETWORK,1035
1

 Neha Narkhede,  software engineer, CTO and cofounder of Confluent

Los Angeles, June 10, 2019
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh

Neha Narkhede,  software engineer, CTO and cofounder of Confluent. Net Worth $360M: 

  • Neha is cofounder and chief technology officer of Confluent and company currently valued at $2.5 billion.
  • In 2014, she and two LinkedIn colleagues founded Confluent to build tools for companies using Apache Kafka, which became open source in 2011
  • She helped to develop Apache Kafka to handle the networking site's huge influx of data.
  • she helped develop Apache Kafka to handle the networking site's huge influx of data.
  • The company raised $125 million in January 2019 in a round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total funding to $206 million.

It counts Goldman Sachs, Netflix and Uber as customers.

She dreams of working in Silicon Valley while living in India. She applied to graduate school and when she was accepted into a program, she moved to the United States. She believed that she could create things and control her own destiny. To support her interests, her parents ensured that she did three things: learned how to use computers, attended the best schools and modeled women leaders. Unbeknownst to young Narkhede, her parents put her on a path to become a leader that women and girls would look up to one day.