Contribute & Commit
Responsive is built by contributors and committers to Kafka Streams. We strive to regularly contribute to Apache Kafka.
Seasoned Operators
The team has collectively spent over two decades supporting production Kafka Streams deployments.
Deep Expertise
Our team is behind some of the core Kafka features, such as the transaction and rebalancing algorithms.
Our Team
Get to know us a bit better.
Our goal is to enable any organization at any size to be successful with Kafka Streams in production. The technology we built solves the problems we've seen over the years at the root, and our support and expertise solves the rest.
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Apurva Mehta
Co-Founder & CEO
Apurva has spent more than 15 years building infrastructure software, the most recent
six of which were at Confluent, where he was an engineer working on Apache Kafka and later
ran the KSQL and Kafka Streams teams.
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Almog Gavra
Co-Founder
Almog is an experienced infrastructure software engineer. He has worked on stream processing for
the last decade, starting with realtime ingestion for search at LinkedIn and most recently as one
of the top contributors to KSQL at Confluent.
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Rohan Desai
Co-Founder
Rohan has been working in the software infrastructure space for over 10 years. Most recently
he was at Confluent, where he was the architect of the cloud platform underpinning KSQL.
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Sophie Blee-Goldman
Founding Engineer
Sophie is an Apache Kafka committer and PMC member. She was most recently at Confluent, where
she worked on Kafka Streams, becoming one of the project's top contributors.
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Jason Gustafson
Software Engineer
Jason is an Apache Kafka committer and PMC member and has been one of its top contributors over the past 10 years.
He helped design many of Kafka's foundational protocols including those enabling exactly-once processing and
consensus in KRaft.
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Scott Franklin
Founding GTM Leader
Scott is a seasoned go-to-market leader with 20+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure
and cloud-native solutions. He has a proven track record of building sales models,
scaling high-performance teams, and launching successful products.
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Kylie Clement
Founding GTM Leader
Kylie has 22+ years of enterprise technology sales experience
specializing in solution selling for high growth start up organizations focused on open source, streaming
data, SaaS, cloud, subscription-based and licensed solutions for successful customer deployments.