Florian is an open-source and Apache Kafka® enthusiast for a long time, currently working at Kestra on a distributed and event-driven orchestration platform. He worked for over 10 years as a Software Engineer consultant and trainer specialized in stream processing architectures. He is the creator of multiple open-source projects such as Connect FilePulse and Jikkou. For his contributions to the Apache Kafka ecosystem, Florian received the Confluent Community Catalyst award five times.

Florian is an open-source community enthusiast and the author of projects such as Kafka Streams CEP, Kafka Connect FilePulse, a popular community-driven Kafka source connector for streaming files from: local-filesystem, Amazon S3, Azure Storage and Google Cloud Storage. More recently, he has started working on Jikkou, an open-source solution to help implement GitOps for Kafka at scale. He also supports the organization of the Paris Apache Kafka Meetups in France.