Simon Aubury is a Principal Data Engineer in Sydney. He calls himself a “data geek,” with experience building distributed systems across finance, transport, healthcare, insurance, and telecoms. His passion is Kafka, streaming data, and data mesh—designing reliable, real-time platforms that deliver value.

He has worked on multiple production Kafka and Flink projects across Australia and shared these experiences at conferences. As one of the Sydney DataEngBytes organisers, he enjoys contributing to the community through talks, blogs, and projects that showcase the best of streaming technologies