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When
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
5:30pm - 8:00pm PT
Where
Confluent HQ
899 West Evelyn Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94041
Schedule
Doors open at 5:30pm
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Food, drinks, and networking
6:30pm - 7:30pm - Lightning talks
7:30pm - 8:00pm - Networking/wrap-up
Getting There
Confluent's Mountain View office is a 5 minute walk from the Mountain View Caltrain station. Street parking is also available near the office.
Presenters
Neha Narkhede
Co-founder
Neha Narkhede is the co-founder at Confluent, a company backing the popular Apache Kafka messaging system. Prior to founding Confluent, Neha led streams infrastructure at LinkedIn, where she was responsible for LinkedIn’s streaming infrastructure built on top of Apache Kafka and Apache Samza. She is one of the initial authors of Apache Kafka and a committer and PMC member on the project.
Gwen Shapira
Engineering Manager, Confluent
Gwen Shapira is a Software Enginner at Confluent. She has 15 years of experience working with code and customers to build scalable data architectures, integrating relational and big data technologies. She currently specialises in building real-time reliable data processing pipelines using Apache Kafka. Gwen is an Oracle Ace Director, an author of books including “Kafka, the Definitive Guide”, and a frequent presenter at data related conferences. Gwen is also a committer on the Apache Kafka and Apache Sqoop projects.
Julie Wang
Head of Data
Building a World Class Data Team
Kajal Kamdar
Head of Engineering TPM
What It Takes to be a Great TPM