Joan Gomez is a Software Engineer at Datadog, where he works on infrastructure systems that provide real time data replication capabilities for internal product teams. Since joining in 2024, he has focused on building and operating large scale CDC pipelines, including the Cassandra CDC and Debezium based architecture powering low latency data propagation across the organization. Before Datadog, Joan worked as a Software and Data Engineer at Glovo, where he built data intensive applications using Kafka and Kotlin. His earlier work also includes developing batch processing pipelines and data products, and contributing to data mesh architecture adoption within data engineering teams.