2025 Program Committee

Adi Polak

Adi Polak

Director of Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering
Confluent
Afzal Mazhar

Afzal Mazhar

Software Practice Lead: Developer Enablement
Confluent
Anna McDonald

Anna McDonald

Technical Voice of the Customer
Confluent
Dave Klein

Dave Klein

Developer Advocate
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David Anderson

David Anderson

Software Practice Lead at Confluent, Apache Flink Committer
Confluent
Dipankar Mazumdar

Dipankar Mazumdar

Staff Data Engineer Advocate
Onehouse
Diptiman Raichaudhuri

Diptiman Raichaudhuri

Staff Developer Advocate
Confluent
Gunnar Morling

Gunnar Morling

Senior Principal Software Engineer
Decodable
Neil Buesing

Neil Buesing

Co-Founder, CTO
Kinetic Edge
Olena Kutsenko

Olena Kutsenko

Senior Developer Advocate
Aiven
Pavan Keshavamurthy

Pavan Keshavamurthy

Founder CTO
Platformatory
Robert Metzger

Robert Metzger

Staff Software Engineer
Decodable
Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt

Sr. Principal Advisor, Streaming Data Technologies
Confluent
Sandon Jacobs

Sandon Jacobs

Senior Developer Advocate
Confluent
Satish Duggana

Satish Duggana

Lead - Data/Streaming Infrastructure
Uber
Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley

Senior Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov

Principal Developer Advocate
Confluent
Organized by Confluent
Adi Polak

Adi Polak

Confluent

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Afzal Mazhar

Afzal Mazhar

Confluent

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Anna McDonald

Anna McDonald

Confluent

Anna McDonald is a Principal Customer Solutions Technical Architect with Confluent. Prior to joining Confluent she was a Principal Software Developer with SAS Institute. She specializes in integration architecture and event streaming. Her most recent work includes creation of the Derivative Events design pattern. A speaker at Kafka Summit and Jfokus her love of all things technical is matched only by her love of math puns.

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Avinash Upadhyaya

Avinash Upadhyaya

Platformatory

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Dave Klein

Dave Klein

Tabular

Dave is a Senior Developer Advocate with Quix, where he helps Python developers take advantage of streaming data. Before joining Quix, he was a Senior Developer Advocate with Confluent, an application developer, project manager (recovered), trainer, conference speaker, co-author of Kafka in Action, and a homeschooling father of fourteen children. If he had any spare time, he’d enjoy hiking, reading, and playing with the grandchildren.

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David Anderson

David Anderson

Confluent

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Dipankar Mazumdar

Dipankar Mazumdar

Onehouse

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Diptiman Raichaudhuri

Diptiman Raichaudhuri

Confluent

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Gunnar Morling

Gunnar Morling

Decodable

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Neil Buesing

Neil Buesing

Kinetic Edge

Neil Buesing is a software architect and engineer; with 20 years of experience building JVM based enterprise applications. He is involved with designing, building, and promoting of real-time data technologies.He is an avid user of Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect. He currently works with companies to stream their data into Apache Druid leveraging Apache Kafka.

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Olena Kutsenko

Olena Kutsenko

Aiven

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Pavan Keshavamurthy

Pavan Keshavamurthy

Platformatory

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Robert Metzger

Robert Metzger

Decodable

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Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt

Confluent

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Sandon Jacobs

Sandon Jacobs

Confluent

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Satish Duggana

Satish Duggana

Uber

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Sujatha Sivaramakrishnan

Sujatha Sivaramakrishnan

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Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley

Red Hat

Tom is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat based in the UK. He is a maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF sandbox project for running Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. Alongside his Strimzi work Tom has also contributed to the Apache Kafka project. He has spoken at numerous international conferences about Kafka and Strimzi. In his previous role Tom was a developer on a compiler for the Ceylon programming language.

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Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov

Confluent

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