Adam BellemareAdam Bellemare is a Staff Technologist, Office of the CTO at Confluent. Previously, staff Engineer, Data Platform at Shopify and he was at Flipp from 2014, first as a Senior Developer, followed by a role as Staff. He has also held positions in embeddd software development and quality assurance. His expertise includes: Devops (Kafka, Spark, Mesos, Zookeeper Clusters. Programmatic Building, scaling, destroying); Technical Leadership (Bringing Avro formatting to our data end-to-end, championing Kafka as the event-driven microservice bus, prototyping JRuby, Scala and Java Kafka clients and focusing on removing technical impediments to allow for product delivery); Software Development (Building microservices in Java and Scala using Spark and Kafka libraries); and Data Engineering (Reshaping the way that behavioral data is collected from user devices and shared with our Machine Learning, Billing and Analytics teams). He is the author of Building Event-Driven Microservices (2020) with O'Reilly Read More Read Less