Jun Rao is a co-founder of Confluent, where he helped commercialize Apache Kafka. He previously led Kafka development as a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn and conducted database and distributed-systems research at IBM Almaden. He is a PMC chair of Apache Kafka, a committer of Apache Cassandra, and a co-author of research papers and software patents.
Jun Rao is a co-founder of Confluent, where he helped commercialize Apache Kafka. He previously led Kafka development as a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn and conducted database and distributed-systems research at IBM Almaden. He is a PMC chair of Apache Kafka, a committer of Apache Cassandra, and a co-author of research papers and software patents.