Sebastien Viale is a software engineer with over six years of experience working with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams in large-scale production environments. He played a key role in Michelin’s transition to an event-driven architecture, designing and operating stateful streaming applications that support business-critical workflows.
His work focuses on designing and operating stateful streaming applications where correctness, reliability, and upgrade safety directly impact business outcomes. Sebastien specializes in translating complex Kafka Streams internals—such as state management and error handling—into robust, scalable solutions that reduce operational risk and support long-term platform evolution.