Jack Vanlightly

Principal Technologist at Confluent. I think about the future of Confluent, the Kora engine, Apache Kafka, and the wider data ecosystem as a whole.

Previously:

• Principal software engineer at Splunk working on Apache BookKeeper and Apache Pulsar.

• Staff software engineer at VMware in the RabbitMQ core team.

I’m into all things messaging systems, distributed systems engineering, distributed systems testing, formal verification and I love to write.

You can contact me at jack.vanlightly@gmail.com or on social media:

• Twitter @vanlightly

• Bluesky @vanlightly.bsky.social

• LinkedIn

I’m also the curator of Humans of the Data Sphere. A biweekly review of the data ecosystem with insights, observations, commentary and opinions from interesting people from the world of databases, AI, streaming, distributed systems and the data engineering/analytics space.

Oh and go check out my wife’s work on Etsy, she knits shawls, that’s her thing. For a 10% discount please use code JACKV