• 👨‍🔧 I’m a software engineer working at IBM
• 💻 I’m a committer and the chair of the Project Management Committee for Apache Kafka
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him

📝 Recent Blog Posts

• Kafka Monthly Digest: May 2026
• Kafka Monthly Digest: April 2026
• Kafka Monthly Digest: March 2026
• Kafka Monthly Digest: February 2026
• Kafka Monthly Digest: January 2026

💬 Talks/Interviews

• Improving Kafka monitoring with native Prometheus Metrics Reporter - StrimziCon 2025
• Kafka Connect: Build & Run Data Pipelines - GOTO Book Club 2024
• MirrorMaker: Beyond the Basics - Kafka Summit London 2023
• Getting up to speed with Kafka Connect - Kafka Summit London 2022
• Developer’s guide to contributing code to Kafka - Kafka Summit London 2022
• Getting up to Speed with MirrorMaker 2 - Kafka Summit 2020
• Fast Kafka Apps! - Kafka Summit London 2019

📘 Book

• Kafka Connect - Build and Run Data Pipelines - O'Reilly 2023