Liz Bennett
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Confluent
Shibuya, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Bennett is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems and leading identity and authentication at Confluent. She architects high-performance, globally-available security platforms—most recently reworking secure token issuance/verification, IAM for hosted Flink, and multi-organization identity management—while mentoring teams and raising standards for operational excellence. Comfortable from strategic design to hands-on code, she regularly ships systems using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, Auth0/Okta, Kafka, Postgres and Terraform across AWS and multi-cloud environments. Her background includes re-architecting real-time streaming infrastructure at Stitch Fix and scaling search and logging systems at Loggly and LinkedIn, which gives her a strong foundation in event-driven architectures and observability. Colleagues note she pairs a high bar for quality with a leadership style that emphasizes positivity, compassion and developer productivity. Trained as both a computer scientist and classical musician, she brings discipline and creativity to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA & BM, Computer Science and Music Performance, BA & BM, Computer Science and Music Performance at Oberlin CollegeHigh School Diploma, Music, Bassoon Performance, High School Diploma, Music, Bassoon Performance at Interlochen Arts Academy
Github Skills (69)
sink10
python-client10
aws-s310
kafka-connect10
storage10
kafka10
connectors10
amazon10
confluent10
kafka-connector10
aws10
amazon-s310
confluent-cloud10
elasticsearch9
librdkafka9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stitchfix/kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
kafka-connectkafkaconnectorelasticsearch
zzbennett/kafka-connect-storage-cloud
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Kafka Connect suite of connectors for Cloud storage (currently including Amazon S3)
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
gcpsinkamazonazure-blob-storageamazon-s3
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