Dominique Ronde is a Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent, with deep expertise in Apache Flink, Kafka, and real-time stream processing. He brings over 20 years of experience in distributed data systems, having worked at major organizations such as Allianz and SAP, as well as several startups. Currently pursuing a PhD in Applied Artificial Intelligence, his research focuses on model drift detection in streaming environments. Dominique helps global enterprises design and deploy scalable AI and data infrastructure, and regularly speaks at international conferences on topics including AI/ML, stream processing, and operational resilience.