Jay Kreps
Co-founder and CEO, Confluent
Writing Kafka, then building the company around it
Rating
79Impact score
Domains
Streaming dataDistributed systemsOpen source business
Scouting report
Co-created Apache Kafka at LinkedIn to solve the company’s own data-pipeline mess, wrote The Log, the essay that taught a generation of engineers to think of state as a replayable stream, and left in 2014 to found Confluent around it. Kafka is now infrastructure at most large companies, and Confluent went public in 2021.
Curator’s note
Wrote the thing, then had to work out how to keep the lights on around it.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jay Kreps by Oleg Yunakov, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Apache Kafka en.wikipedia.org
- 02The Log: What every software engineer should know (archived) web.archive.org
- 03Confluent en.wikipedia.org