Elad Leev
Staff Engineer - Data Platform
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElad Leev is a Staff Engineer specializing in data platforms and distributed systems, with nine years of experience building and stabilizing high-scale streaming infrastructures. He has driven Kafka-centric architectures, platform reliability, and cost-efficiency at companies handling hundreds of billions of events and multi-hundred-terabyte stores. Known for pragmatic tooling, he’s authored open-source utilities (including a Go CLI for Sealed Secrets import and a Prometheus Kafka config exporter) and led GitOps and Helm/ArgoCD adoptions to improve operational velocity. A regular public speaker and Confluent Community Catalyst, he blends deep production ops expertise with a passion for self-learning and new tech discovery. Based in London, he brings hands-on ownership from low-level DBA and Unix ops to modern Kubernetes-native data pipelines. An RSS addict, he uniquely combines troubleshooting craft with a knack for turning platform pain points into developer self-service.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
System Networking and LAN/WAN Management, System Networking and LAN/WAN Management at Cisco Networking AcademyJohn Bryce
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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20answers
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apache-kafka
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Github Skills (192)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
EladLeev/about
Jul 2020 - Feb 2025
Just a bunch of talks, abstracts and links
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
linksabstracts
EladLeev/KeyToField-smt
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
A Kafka Connect Single Message Transform (SMT) that enables you to append the record key to the value as a named field
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 50 PRs in 1 year 1 month
debeziumkafka-connectkafka-connect-smtsingle-message-transformssmt
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