Pere Urbón-bayes
Senior Solutions Architect - Field Engineer at Confluent
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPere Urbón-bayes is a Senior Solutions Architect and field engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience designing and delivering streaming, data integration, and observability solutions across Banking, Telco, Transport, Energy and Automotive sectors. At Confluent he leads professional services engagements from inception through evolution, advising enterprise architects, engineering leaders and product owners while doing hands-on work in Kafka Connect, performance tuning, and CI/CD. He blends deep engineering skills (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB) with cloud and automation expertise across Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP and operators to turn complex architectures into operable, secure platforms. Pere contributes to notable open-source work on the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector—fixing index-casing bugs, improving tests and adding controlled index-creation behavior—demonstrating attention to reliability and testability in production integrations. Regularly speaking at international conferences, he pairs client-facing consulting with pragmatic implementation, often stepping into troubleshooting and performance engineering roles. His academic grounding in computer science and an MSc in Computational Engineering and Mathematics complement a practitioner mindset focused on measurable operational outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaHigh school, High school at GiolaMSc Computational Engineering and Mathematics, MSc Computational Engineering and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i VirgiliUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, German, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
kafka-connect10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing9
junit9
git7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/kafka-connect-elasticsearch
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 15 PRs, 97 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pere primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements for the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch connector. They addressed an issue related to index name casing in Elasticsearch, implementing a solution and adding a corresponding test case. Further work involved refactoring code for better logging messages and improving test practices. The user also added functionality to control index creation during connector startup.
kafka-connectorconnectorkafka-connectelasticsearchkafka
kafka-ops/kafka-migration-tool
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
An Apache Kafka migration tool to effectively manage moving between environments
Contributions:2 releases, 85 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
sinkapache-kafkaapachemigrationkafka-connect
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