Nick Dearden
Field CTO & Senior Director, Advanced Technology Group at Confluent
Singapore
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Top SchoolNick Dearden is a seasoned technology leader and Field CTO with over two decades of experience building data-driven, distributed systems and high-performing engineering teams across startups and enterprise SaaS. Currently leading Confluent's Advanced Technology Group from Singapore, he combines hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile confluentinc/ksql stream-processing project—with a strong product and go-to-market sensibility. His career spans founding CTO roles and senior engineering/director positions at organizations like Tidemark, Auction.com and Oracle, where he designed cloud-scale analytics engines and operationalized feedback-driven data products. Known for recruiting and mentoring global teams, he excels at turning customer requirements into scalable architectures and production systems that deliver measurable business impact. An economist by training, he brings a pragmatic market-focus to technical decisions, marrying analytics rigor with product evangelism.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Economics and Politics, BA (Hons) Economics and Politics at University of Leeds
Github Skills (7)
javas10
stream-processing10
kafka10
sql10
java10
ksqldb10
apache-kafka9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/ksql
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
The database purpose-built for stream processing applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 29 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the ksql project by addressing code issues, implementing new features, and enhancing documentation. They fixed a package declaration in the serde section of the code and added example code to the documentation, indicating an active role in improving both the codebase and its usability. The user also implemented a new geo distance function, demonstrating their involvement in expanding the project's functionality. They also contributed to string masking functions, further indicating backend logic implementation.
materialized-viewsstream-processingstreaming-queriesksqldbsql
blueedgenick/ksql
Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
KSQL - a Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
Contributions:2 PRs, 142 pushes, 78 branches in 2 years 9 months
apache-kafkaksqlstreaming-sqlsqlstreaming
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