Loïc DIVAD is a French software engineer working at Spotify in Sweden. He graduated from ISEP and started to work at Publicis Sapient Engineering as a Scala developer, mainly on data engineering projects. That’s where he got involved with event streaming and started making several community contributions. Training, blogging, and speaking at conferences were part of his job as well. He considers knowledge sharing as an essential part of his developer role. Loïc co-founded DataXDay and was previously an organiser. He is part of the first class of Confluent Community Catalysts and was a member of the Kafka Summit 2020 Program Committee.