Jocelyn Drean is a Senior Technical Support Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating data platforms, currently helping customers run Confluent and Apache Kafka at scale from Caen, Normandy. He combines deep data warehousing and ETL expertise with hands-on streaming architecture, having led data engineering efforts using Kafka Streams, Connect, Schema Registry, Cassandra, Redshift and cloud tooling. Known for translating complex business requirements into robust production systems, he has a track record of mentoring teams and evangelizing event-driven and reactive architectures. His background spans BI, machine learning pipelines, fraud detection and web development, reflecting a rare full-stack data profile that bridges analytics and operations. Jocelyn is also a long-time “data hipster” who embraced data practices before they were mainstream, and he excels at turning field feedback into product improvements and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Licence 3 MIAGE, Licence 3 MIAGE at Université de Rennes I
Master 2 - MIAGE Informatique Décisionnelle - Apprenticeship, Master 2 - MIAGE Informatique Décisionnelle - Apprenticeship at Université Paris Dauphine
Diplôme Universitaire Technologique d’Informatique, Diplôme Universitaire Technologique d’Informatique at IUT Informatique de Caen (France)
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Jocelyn Drean - Senior Technical Support Engineer at Confluent