Apurva has spent more than 15 years building infrastructure software, the most recent six of which were at Confluent, where he was an engineer working on Apache Kafka and later ran the KSQL and Kafka Streams teams.

Rohan has been working in the software infrastructure space for over 10 years. Most recently he was at Confluent, where he was the architect of the cloud platform underpinning KSQL.

Almog is an experienced infrastructure software engineer. He has worked on search infrastructure at LinkedIn, and most recently he was one of the top contributors to KSQL at Confluent.

Sophie is an Apache Kafka committer and PMC member. She was most recently at Confluent, where she worked on Kafka Streams, becoming one of the projects top contributors.

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