Declan Curran is a Senior DevOps Engineer at MarketAxess, specialising in cloud-native engineering at the boundary of software and platform infrastructure. He works across the full engineering surface of the CDC pipeline ecosystem, from Kafka-based ingestion and stream processing in Java to the Kubernetes-native infrastructure that keeps them running in production. Before moving into financial services, he built multiplayer networking protocols, real-time terrain generation and audio/video chat systems in the game industry, and built Kafka event ingest infrastructure for IoT platforms.