Neil has been a software consultant in developing enterprise applications for over 20 years. He co-founded Kinetic Edge to continue to help client be successful in real-time event streaming technologies.

Presented at many Kafka Summit and Confluent Current conferences; help champion and organize the Apache Kafka meetup in Twin Cities, Minnesota. Heavily involved in the Confluent Community Slack and write articles and tutorials on helping others learn and using Apache Kafka and real-time streaming technologies.