Olena is passionate about data and its applications, sustainable software development, and teamwork. With a background in computer science, she's led teams and developed mission-critical applications at Nokia, HERE Technologies, and AWS. Currently, she works at Aiven where she supports developers and customers in using open-source data technologies such as Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch. She is also an AWS Community Builder, a volunteer teacher at non-profit tech school and an international public speaker, who regularly present at conferences around the world.

You can find me at a variety of events (check some of my talks on Apache Kafka and other open source tech here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGo5Bt8bgL4n9r-DjfYR0_BGzmb4n6MM). In my free time I'm making educational videos for a YouTube channel(https://www.youtube.com/@OlenaKutsenko), write article and talk to people involved in building projects that require data processing.