Hans-Peter Grahsl is currently working as Senior Field Engineer at Kestra. He was previously a Staff Developer Advocate at Decodable and Red Hat. He is an open-source community enthusiast and passionate about event-driven architectures, stream processing systems and data engineering. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog posts targeting the Apache Kafka and MongoDB communities, Hans-Peter received multiple community awards. He speaks 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 suite to explicitly secure sensitive data in the context stream processing workloads.