CTO at SoftwareMill (VirtusLab Group), a Confluent Elite Partner. Over 15 years I've been building distributed and event-driven systems for banks, fintechs and large enterprises, and grew SoftwareMill's Kafka practice from scratch into one of the leading Kafka consultancies worldwide. Co-author of "Java EE 7 Development with WildFly", past speaker at Devoxx, GeeCON and ConFoo. I write about Kafka and Confluent at softwaremill.com/blog and monedula.dev.

I've written dozens of Kafka & Confluent blog posts (softwaremill.com/blog, monedula.dev) plus regular LinkedIn and X content. With Grzegorz Kocur I maintain open source Kafka tools at github.com/monedula-dev (OTEL metric reporter, ACL-to-RBAC converter and more) and built the Kafka Simulator - an interactive learning tool for Kafka users. Over the last 3 years I've co-run invite-only events with Confluent for prospective customers, spoke on Confluent topics at two IBM events in June 2026, and work on all of SoftwareMill's Confluent customer projects.