Michael work as Senior Principal Consultant at Apps Associates. Michael built a strong foundation in Oracle and PostgreSQL databases, streaming, and cloud technologies. With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, he has gained a wealth of experience across all industries. He has extensive experience in the architecture, operation, and migration of Oracle and PostgreSQL environments, as well as Kafka and streaming environments. He loves to share his experience in blog post, talks and in the online community.

Michael is heavily involved in the Confluent Community Forum and sometimes the Community Slacks around Kafka internals, Kafka Ops, Kafka Connect.