Sven Knop
Staff Technical Trainer at Confluent
Waverley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSven Knop is a seasoned technical trainer and solutions architect with over a decade of experience helping enterprises adopt and operate real-time data and developer platforms. Currently a Staff Technical Trainer at Confluent, he progressed through roles in solutions architecture and professional services, combining deep hands-on experience with client-facing leadership. Prior to Confluent he spent many years at Perforce and earlier consulting and development roles, which give him a strong grounding in developer tooling, systems integration and field enablement. Based in the UK, Sven blends technical depth with teaching craft—translating complex distributed systems concepts into practical, consumable training for engineers and operators. An architect-turned-trainer, he quietly bridges the gap between product engineering and customer success, bringing practitioner credibility to technical enablement.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
RWTH Aachen UniversityPragmatic MarketingDiploma, Diploma at University of Duisburg-EssenStony Brook University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
docker-desktop10
confluent-platform10
cpp10
stream10
ksqldb10
high-performance10
kafka-consumer10
kafka-connect10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
producer10
apache-kafka10
kafka-cluster10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sknop/Sudoku-Puzzles
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 issues in 9 years 10 months
sknop/bootcamp-vpc
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Terraform script to create a new VPC for bootcamp including jumphost and samba host
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 99 pushes in 7 months
sambavpchostterraformaws
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