Andrew Stevenson is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11+ years focused on fast data, streaming platforms and large-scale data architectures. Based in the Netherlands, he has driven streaming strategy and delivery at Lenses.io, Celonis and DataMountaineer, blending hands-on engineering with product and platform leadership. A proven Kafka and DataOps specialist, he contributes to open-source connectors such as lensesio/stream-reactor—where his work on the kafka-connect-mongodb connector improved authentication, driver support and test integrity. His background spans finance and energy sectors, delivering production Hadoop and real-time pipelines that reduced costs and increased data capture for trading and analytics. Known for bridging DevOps, GitOps and Kubernetes practices, he excels at turning complex data challenges into reliable, production-ready systems.
A collection of open source Apache 2.0 Kafka Connector maintained by Lenses.io.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 releases, 58 reviews, 130 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily worked on the `kafka-connect-mongodb` connector, addressing issues related to field selection and data migration. They were responsible for upgrading the MongoDB driver and adding support for SCRAM_SHA_256 authentication. Their contributions also included modifying test cases within the `kafka-connect-mongodb` module, which involved changes to the test records and schema definitions, thus ensuring data integrity.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
schema-registryzookeepertestkitembeddedkafka
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