Adam Bellemare

Adam Bellemare is a principal technologist of the Technology Strategy Group at Confluent. Previously, he has worked as a staff engineer on data streaming platforms at Shopify and Flipp from 2014 to 2021. He started his work in event-driven systemsat Blackberry in 2010, using custom-built streaming data pipelines for analyzing and reporting on cell-phone failures.

His expertise includes DevOps (Kafka, Spark, Mesos, Kubernetes, Solr, Elasticsearch, HBase, and Zookeeper clusters, programmatic building, scaling, monitoring); technical leadership (helping businesses organize their data communication layer, integrate existing systems, develop new systems, and focus on delivering products); software development (building event-driven microservices in Java and Scala using Kafka Streams, Flink, and Spark); and data engineering (reshaping the way that behavioral data is collected from user devices and shared within the organization).