Kate Stanley is a software engineer, technical speaker and Java Champion. She has experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, developing enterprise Kafka applications and writing connectors for Kafka Connect.
Kate currently works as a Principal Software Engineer across the Red Hat Kafka offerings. She also contributes to multiple projects in the Kafka ecosystem, including the open-source Kafka operator, Strimzi. Kate started her journey with Kafka as part of the Event Streams team at IBM in 2018, quickly becoming well known in the community.
Alongside development, Kate has a passion for presenting and sharing knowledge. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences around the world, including events such as Kafka Summit, Jfokus, Devoxx UK and JavaOne. She has authored two LinkedIn Learning courses on MicroProfile and Kafka and written an eBook on writing microservices with Java.
