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Top SchoolSandon Jacobs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent with 11 years of experience focused on event-driven systems, Kafka, JVM languages (Java/Scala), and cloud-native streaming on AWS. He designs and operates high-throughput stream-processing and change-data-capture pipelines across diverse stores (MongoDB, Oracle, Cassandra, Teradata) and previously architected a real-time bidding platform that scaled to 100k QPS. Equally at home writing microservices with Spring Boot, Akka, and Play or administering Kafka clusters, he translates complex streaming patterns into actionable guidance for developer communities. His background in enterprise integration and healthcare portals gives him pragmatic depth in messaging, SOA, and compliance-aware systems. Outside of engineering he's an avid golfer and proud Tar Heel, a reminder that steady practice and a competitive mindset drive his approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Pembroke