Martijn van der Pauw is a Senior Event Streaming- and Platform Engineer at E.ON / Essent, working through Team Rockstars IT. With over 10 years of experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures, he specializes in building scalable and resilient systems using Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect and Apache Flink.  Martijn combines deep technical expertise with a hands-on, consultative approach, helping teams adopt event streaming, apply best practices, and operate cloud-native platforms effectively. In his role, he provides technical leadership and mentorship, with a strong focus on DevOps integration and long-term platform reliability.