Neha Narkhede - Entrepreneur, Co-Founder And Former CTO Of Confluent

Neha Narkhede is an Indian American technology entrepreneur.

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She is the co-founder and former CTO of Confluent, a streaming data technology company.

She co-created the open source software platform Apache Kafka.

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Narkhede was raised in Pune, Maharashtra.

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She went to the Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), University of Pune,

She received a masters in technology from Georgia Tech.

Narkhede started her first job at Oracle as a principal software engineer.

In October 2020, Narkhede was listed #33 on the list of "America's Self Made Women" by Forbes.

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Narkhede now serves as a board member of Confluent.

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In 2022, Neha received the Abie Award for Technology Entrepreneurship Award Winner at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing from Anitab.

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