Jay Kreps
Confluent Co-founder and CEO
Mountain View, CA
Jay Kreps is the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, a company backing the popular Apache Kafka messaging system. Prior to founding Confluent, he was the lead architect for data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is among the original authors of several open source projects including Project Voldemort (a key-value store), Apache Kafka (a distributed messaging system) and Apache Samza (a stream processing system).