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Speaker: Benjamin Stopford
Author of “Designing Event Driven Systems” & Senior Director @confluentinc
Ben is a Senior Director at Confluent (a company that backs Apache Kafka) where he runs the Office of the CTO. He's worked on a wide range of projects from implementing the latest version of Kafka’s replication protocol through to assessing and shaping Confluent's strategy. His earlier career spanned projects at Thoughtworks and UK-based enterprise companies. He is also the author of the book “Designing Event Driven Systems”, O’Reilly, 2018. Find out more at http://benstopford.com.