Hans-Peter Grahsl is a Staff Developer Advocate at Decodable. He previously worked at Red Hat and has long been an open-source community enthusiast with a passion for event-driven architectures, distributed stream processing systems and data engineering. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog post writing at the intersection of the Apache Kafka and MongoDB communities Hans-Peter received multiple community awards. He is a regular speaker at developer conferences for several years.

Hans-Peter has been mostly active in the Apache Kafka, MongoDB, and Apache Flink developer communities. He is the original author of several ecosystem community projects such as the Apache Kafka MongoDB Sink Connector and more recently his data security related project Kryptonite for Kafka, a client-side field-level cryptography library to explicitly secure sensitive data in the context stream processing workloads.