Jay Kreps — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder and former CEO of Confluent
Original author of open-source projects including Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Voldemort, and Azkaban
Board Member at Anthropic

Biography

Jay Kreps is a co-founder and former CEO of Confluent, a company centered on realtime data streams and the open-source messaging system Apache Kafka. He is recognized as the original author of several open-source projects, including Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Voldemort, and Azkaban.

Prior to co-founding Confluent, Kreps held a role at LinkedIn. He also served as a Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining at Nextag and as a Software Engineer at Movaris.