Summary
Adrien Wattez is a solutions architect and senior backend/data engineer with 9 years of experience designing resilient distributed systems and event-driven architectures across cloud and on-prem environments. Certified Google Cloud Architect and Professional Cloud Developer, Confluent Kafka trainer and Kubernetes advocate, he blends deep hands-on skills in Kafka, Spring/Micronaut, Flink and cloud-native tooling with a pedagogue’s instinct for teaching and upskilling teams. At Confluent he deploys end-to-end Kafka ecosystems on AWS/GCP/Azure and automates operations with Kubernetes Operators and Ansible; prior roles include building real-time data platforms for banking, biotech sequencing pipelines on AWS, and blockchain smart contracts. He’s passionate about crafting maintainable, test-driven platforms and often drives adoption by producing pragmatic developer foundations and POCs that lower operational friction. Based in Rennes, France, Adrien’s background in GPU simulation research and blockchain development gives him a rare mix of low-level performance insight and enterprise integration expertise.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Eseo
Master's degree Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation, Master's degree Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English, Spanish