Florian is an open-source and Apache Kafka® enthusiast for a long time, currently working at Kestra on a distributed and event-driven data 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 four times.

Florian is an open-source community enthusiast and the author of projects such as 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 work on Jikkou, an open-source tool designed to make it easier to manage the configuration of a Kafka platform.

Content

• BLOG: Why is Managing Kafka Topics Still Such a Pain? Introducing Jikkou!
• BLOG: GitOps & Kafka: Enabling smooth and seamless Data Schema management with Jikkou and GitHub Actions
• BLOG: Kafka Connect + Jikkou- Easily manage Kafka connectors