Colt is the founder of LittleHorse Enterprises and the original author of the LittleHorse Kernel. He's a passionate Apache Kafka fan and loves hockey, golf, piano, cooking, and Taekwondo.

Colt has been heavily involved in the Apache Kafka community (especially Kafka Streams) while building the open-source LittleHorse Kernel at LittleHorse Enterprises. He and his team have contributed numerous patches, conference talks, Slack answers, blogs, and even a KIP related to Kafka Streams along their journey.