Jean Boudart is a seasoned Head of Customer Engineering with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale Java and DevOps platforms across finance and cloud-native companies. He specializes in streaming monitoring and real-time observability, having architected and automated monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka exporters) for Confluent and contributed operational configurations to the popular confluentinc jmx-monitoring-stacks repo. A pragmatic architect and coach, he has led customer engineering and technical account teams while helping enterprises like BNP Paribas and AXA modernize deployment, monitoring and scaling practices. His hands-on background spans Kafka, ELK, Rancher/OpenShift, Ansible and container automation, combined with deep operational troubleshooting and performance tuning. Known as an open-source enthusiast, he blends developer coaching with production-grade automation to make streaming systems resilient and observable. Based in Paris, he brings a mix of consulting agility and enterprise-grade delivery to customer-facing technical leadership.
📊 Monitoring examples for Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jean primarily focused on configuring and integrating various monitoring tools, making the CP-demo environment configurable, and creating scripts to manage the monitoring stack. Their contributions involved defining and adapting Docker Compose configurations to launch and manage services like Prometheus, Grafana, and Kafka lag exporter. They also automated processes for certificate generation and role binding within the Confluent Platform environment. The user's work centered on streamlining the deployment and management of the monitoring stack.
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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Jean Boudart - Head Of Customer Engineering at Conduktor