David Green is a Principal Engineer and Distributed Systems Architect with over two decades of experience building platforms for internal corporate and public consumer-scale workloads.
His work on advanced Kafka patterns - with a particular focus on creating foundational abstractions that deliver low latency and high throughput - directly informs this talk.
David's background includes building mission-critical financing systems through the 2008 financial crisis - where right-first-time was the baseline expectation, reliability wasn't optional and 24/7 on-call meant exactly that.
He is currently developing an open source project tackling the Kafka head-of-line blocking problem, validated through extensive chaos testing under real-world failure conditions.