Sandon Jacobs
Senior Developer Advocate
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSandon Jacobs is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent with 11 years of professional experience building high-throughput, stream-processing systems and developer-facing tooling. He brings deep JVM expertise and hands-on Kafka experience from roles where he architected CDC-based data pipelines, real-time bidding platforms, and company-wide stream processing frameworks. Sandon has moved between engineering and advocacy roles, combining production experience—running Kafka at scale and administering distributed environments—with clear communication skills for developer enablement. His background spans Spring Boot microservices, Scala/Play/Akka work, and long tenures in mission-critical enterprise systems for healthcare, insurance, and rail industries. Based in Raleigh, NC, he’s also an avid golfer and passionate Tar Heel, a detail that surfaces his team-player mindset and local roots. Sandon’s practical focus is turning complex integration problems into reliable, observable streaming architectures that developers can adopt.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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Github Skills (81)
debezium10
sink10
cosmosdb10
elasticsearch10
confluent-platform10
kraft10
monitoring10
avro10
kafka-streams10
sql10
ksqldb10
cdc10
kafka-connect10
edges10
mysql10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sandonjacobs/dotFiles
Jun 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 years 6 months
sandonjacobs/gradle-kafka-connect
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 releases, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year
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