Mickael Maison
Senior Principal Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
France
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Top SchoolMickael Maison is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, Kafka, and cloud-native operations, now based in France and currently at IBM. He is an Apache Kafka committer and chair of the Kafka PMC, contributing deep server-side expertise and documentation improvements to one of the most widely used streaming platforms. His open-source work spans critical Kafka tooling—enhancing Cruise Control, Strimzi operator code, and core Apache Kafka—plus Prometheus JVM instrumentation and Kafka client libraries in Go and Node.js. Mickael combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills with a knack for clean refactors and test-driven improvements, often modernizing legacy flows (for example removing ZooKeeper dependencies and adding TLS/AdminClient support). He has a track record of shipping robust messaging systems at enterprise scale across IBM and Red Hat, and brings uncommon cross-language experience from Java to Go and Node.js. His technical writing and documentation contributions underline a pragmatic approach: shipping reliable code while making it easier for others to operate and maintain complex systems.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Computer Science, DUT Computer Science at Université de LimogesBSc Computer Science - Computer Programming, BSc Computer Science - Computer Programming at Teesside University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (52)
kubernetes10
admin10
python10
testing10
kafka10
kubernetes-operator10
instrumentation10
librdkafka10
go-testing10
zookeeper10
kafka-node10
message-queue10
java10
scala10
javas10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-messaging/event-streams-samples
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mickael primarily refactored and updated the NodeJS console sample. This included upgrading the `node-rdkafka` library and modifying the producer logic to utilize the delivery report callback for improved message handling. Furthermore, the user introduced a new Python console sample using `confluent_kafka`, creating a new example with a Dockerfile. The user's contributions span different languages and frameworks, focused on updating existing samples and expanding with a new example.
apache/kafka-site
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Mirror of Apache Kafka site
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:93 reviews, 18 commits, 82 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Mickael primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka site documentation. Their work involved updating mailing list archives, adding and updating committer profiles with contact information, and correcting documentation for specific Kafka versions. The changes included fixing links, correcting the OpenAPI specification link for Connect, and updating the documentation for different Kafka releases, including fixes for 2.6.3, 2.7.2, and 3.0.1.
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