Sami is an Architect at Essent, with a passion to unlock value from data. My main area of expertise lies within the fields of Big Data Analytics, Stream Processing, Cloud Architecture, Microservices and Integrations. When not architecting or engineering, I like to travel and enjoying quality time with family.

Sami has been contributing to the community in multiple ways including, but not limited to the below:

• Speaker at Kafka Summits, Data in Motion & Multiple Conferences.
• Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Community Lead promoting Event Streaming.
• Active in the organization of the Apache & Confluent Kafka User Group Meetup in the Netherlands.
• Wrote multiple articles on usage of Kafka Connect & Kafka Streams.

and much more...