Kate Stanley is a software engineer, technical speaker, and Java Champion. She has experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, developing enterprise Kafka applications, and writing connectors for Kafka Connect. Kate currently works as a software engineer on Apache Kafka based products at IBM. She is also a maintainer of the CNCF project Strimzi, which is a Kubernetes operator for Kafka.

Alongside development on the CNCF project Strimzi, Kate has a passion for presenting and sharing knowledge. She has presented at conferences around the world, including Kafka Summit events in London, New York and San Francisco, and Current London. She has authored a LinkedIn Learning course on running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, and written an O’Reilly book on Kafka Connect which was published in 2023.