Kai Waehner is an Enterprise Architect and Global Field Engineer at Confluent. He works with customers across the globe and with internal teams like engineering and marketing. Kai’s main area of expertise lies within the fields of Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Event Stream Processing, and the Internet of Things. He is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Devoxx, ApacheCon, and Kafka Summit, and writes articles for professional journals.