Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about assisting architects, developers, and operators in crafting systems that are not only low in latency and scalable but also highly available.

As a Java Champion and an esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events like JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps. Viktor has co-authored “Enterprise Web Development” and “Apache Kafka® in Action”.  Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor’s latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.

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From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Your Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2025 June 2025
Event-Driven Analytics: Building Real-Time Dashboards with Apache Flink and Ktor KotlinConf 2025 May 2025
Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink Current London May 2025
Stream, Materialize, Serve – Knitting Flawless Pipelines with Kafka, Flink, and Pinot RTA Summit May 2025
Stream Processing As You’ve Never Seen Before (Seriously): Apache Flink for Java Developers Geecon May 2025
Codepocalypse Now: LangChain4j vs. Spring AI DevoxxFR April 2025
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream Apache Kafka® x Apache Iceberg™ Meetup April 2025
The IDE That Speaks Kafka: Mastering Streams in VS Code Platform Engineering New York meetup April 2025
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream Iceberg Summit 2025 April 2025
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream Zurich Kafka Meetup January 2025
Uncorking Real-Time Analytics with Pulsar, Pinot and Flink Data Streaming Summit October 2024
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream JDD October 2024
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream JConf.Dev September 2024
How Do You Query a Stream? jPrime 2024 May 2024
Real-Time Dashboards in the Corporate World: How Apache Pinot Powers Industry Leaders DEVNEXUS April 2024
Guarding GraphQL: Strategies for Robust API Authorization API World October 2023
Service Mesh for Java Developers Nashville JUG September 2023
Service Mesh for Java Developers Amsterdam JUG April 2023
A Technical Deep Dive in Webassembly for Kong Gateway Wasm IO March 2023
5K Serverless Microservices with Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, KNative and Kong Infoshare October 2022
Testing Kafka Containers with Testcontainers: There and Back Again Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit October 2022
Understanding Zero Trust Security with Service Mesh Devoxx Poland June 2022
Service Mesh for Java Developers Devoxx Poland June 2022
Supercharge your Kubernetes Ingress with Kong Ingress Controller NDC Copenhagen June 2022
Tidy Up Microservices With Kafka and Kuma KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 May 2022
Testing Kafka Containers with Testcontainers: There and Back Again Kafka Summit London 2022 April 2022
Supercharge your Ingress with Kong gRPC Community Meetup October 2021
All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing Devoxx Poland August 2021
Bootiful Stream Processing with Spring and Kafka Devoxx Poland August 2021
You can go your way: Kafka without Zookeeper JPoint April 2021
Bootiful Stream Processing! JAVA Z-DAY April 2021
Serverless Kotlin and Apache Kafka® with Google Cloud and Confluent Cloud SnowOne February 2021
Apache Kafka DevOps with Kubernetes and GitOps Devnexus 2021 February 2021
Event Streaming with Kafka Streams Scale By the Bay​ November 2020
I don’t always test my streams, but when I do I do it in production jconf.dev September 2020
The Tales of Event-Driven Told by a Spring Developer SpringOne 2020 September 2020
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers NDC Porto April 2020
Who’s tweeting about #ScalaLove Scala Love April 2020
Streams Must Flow! SpringLive! March 2020
Do it in code (not YAML)! Unlock power of Kotlin DSL for Kubernetes DevNexus 2020 February 2020
Kafka on Kubernetes! DevNexus 2020 February 2020
Do it in code (not YAML)! Unlock power of Kotlin DSL for Kubernetes Devoops October 2019
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers NDC Sydney October 2019
Event-Driven Architectures for Spring Developers SpringOne Platform by Pivotal October 2019
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers SpringOne Platform by Pivotal October 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does it Really Have to Be “The Hard Way”? Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 September 2019
Bringing Observability to Your Stream Processing Oracle Openworld 2019 September 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should! Docker NYC Meetup July 2019
Building a Real-time Alerting, Analytics and Reporting System at Scale NYC In-Memory Computing Meetup June 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does it really have to be “The Hard Way”? Cloud Native Day June 2019

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