Michael Drogalis

Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist.

  1. 2013

    I started an open-source stream processing project.

  2. 2016

    I co-founded a company based on that project and built the first version of infinite storage for Apache Kafka.

  3. 2018

    Confluent acquired it.

  4. 2023

    I founded ShadowTraffic, a service for rapidly simulating production data to your backend.


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