Jose Manuel Cristobal is a Senior Platform Engineer working in Fast Data Platform team, part of Platform Engineering and Application Operations department at adidas. FDP team takes care of adidas streaming platform based on Kafka, a distributed multi-tenant solution running on multiple regions across the globe. With more than 15 years of experience, Jose Manuel has developed most of his career in software development, in sectors like telecommunications, security and most recently retail. Jose Manuel assumes two main roles in Fast Data Platform = Technical Architect and Product Owner.