Interest centers on the intersection between Java and data. Experience includes work on Hibernate and Bean Validation, including serving as spec lead for Bean Validation 2.0. Further experience includes Debezium, which extracts changes from databases like Postgres or MySQL and publishes them into Kafka for real-time data flows into data warehouses or search indexes. The approach also supports microservice data exchanges. Current work at Confluent includes technology investigations, research for investment and acquisition decisions, and internal explanations such as Flink watermarks. Public focus includes blog writing, conference participation, prototyping, and open-source contributions, with ongoing involvement in a new Debezium-related project.
"I'm very much interested in the intersection between Java and the data space. I've been around for quite a bit. For instance, I used to work on the Hibernate project and on Bean Validation. I used to be the spec lead for Bean Validation 2.0 back in the day, which is definitely a data story in the Java space. Then later on, I used to work on Debezium, which is a tool for change data capture, which is about taking data out of a database such as Postgres or MySQL and putting it into Kafka and then, for instance, enabling real-time data flows from a database into your data warehouse or search index."
"It also allows you to do microservice data exchanges and so on. These days, I work as a technologist at Confluent. It's a wide mixture of different things. There's an internally facing part of it. So I do investigations into technologies. Should we invest in certain projects or maybe make a certain acquisition? So I would do some research in that space."
"Sometimes I'm answering questions for our leadership team. Somebody might ask, "Hey, can somebody explain Flink watermarks to me?", and I'll write a one-pager about that. And then, publicly, I focus a lot on writing on my blog. I go out to conferences and, yes, also try to do some prototyping and some open-source projects. I'm still involved with Debezium. I'm working on a new project, which we are going to talk about today."
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