Neha Narkhede

About the Author

Neha Narkhede is a pioneering technologist and entrepreneur renowned for her contributions to real-time data processing and streaming technologies. As a co-founder of Confluent, the company behind the Apache Kafka project, she has played a pivotal role in shaping modern data infrastructure for scalable, event-driven architectures. With a background in software engineering from leading tech firms, Neha's expertise spans distributed systems, cloud computing, and big data analytics. Her work empowers organizations to harness the power of continuous data streams for innovative applications in finance, e-commerce, and beyond. Passionate about open-source innovation and diversity in tech, Neha continues to advocate for accessible tools that drive the future of data engineering.