Senior Principal Technologist at Confluent where I like breaking ideas and systems, writing, formal verification, picking systems apart and doing research for mid/long-term product strategy.
Previously:
Principal software engineer at Splunk working on Apache BookKeeper and Apache Pulsar.
Staff software engineer at VMware in the RabbitMQ core team.
Consultant in the field, specializing in data systems of all kinds.
Also, love space, sci-fi and observatories.
You can contact me at vanlightly@gmail.com or on social media:
Twitter @vanlightly
Bluesky @vanlightly.bsky.social (though not active these days)