Anna Povzner
Director Of Engineering, Cloud-Native Kafka
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAnna Povzner is a Director of Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10+ years building and leading cloud-native distributed systems, storage platforms, and performance QoS solutions. As Confluent’s leader for Cloud-Native Kafka she blends hands-on systems engineering with team leadership to productionize Kafka at scale, drawing on deep expertise in storage performance from roles at Formation Data Systems and IBM Research. Her open-source contributions to Apache Kafka focus on improving integration tests and latency tooling, reflecting a pragmatic emphasis on reliability and observability. Anna holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a track record of designing data placement, migration, and throughput allocation mechanisms that keep large clusters resilient under reconfiguration and failure. Notably, she began her career solving low-level storage QoS problems and continues to apply that performance-first mindset to modern streaming infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzHigh School Math, High School Math at Naukova ZminaIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (6)
scala10
apache-kafka10
integration-testing10
testing10
java9
javas9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 72 commits, 61 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anna Povzner primarily contributed to adding and improving integration tests for the Apache Kafka project, focusing on consumer-related functionalities. Her work included testing exceptional cases in fetching, round-robin assignment for consumers, and session timeouts. She also worked on adding and enhancing test coverage by adding test cases for compressed topics and partition re-assignment. Furthermore, she improved the EndToEndLatency tool.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
apovzner/kafka
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:194 pushes, 53 branches in 4 years 11 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkstreamsapache
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