Gal Krispel

Data Platform Engineer @Riskified

Senior Software Engineer at Riskified\'s streaming platform team.Creating streaming applications using Kafka Streams & Flink with Scala/Java, and defining best practices.Managing infrastructure for Avro schemas / Protobuf descriptors Kafka Connect self-service platform setup.Creating self-managed Helm Charts for Kubernetes deployments for various services (Schema Registry, Prometheus Exporters, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB etc)Co-leading the self-hosted Kafka Cluster infrastructure and user client libraries (Scala, Node.js, Python).The overall tech stack consists of: Scala, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Akka, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka Connect, Java, Python, Airflow, Terraform, Kubernetes, DataHub, and Helm Charts.