Kevin Youtha
Devops Engineer Kafka & Event Streaming Platform @Desjardins
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WORK HISTORY
Devops Engineer Kafka & Event Streaming Platform @Desjardins
Montréal, QC, CA
Member of the Enterprise Event Streaming Foundation responsible for high-volume Confluent Kafka platforms supporting critical banking systems.• Design and operate enterprise-grade Kafka clusters (Confluent Platform)• Provision Kafka resources using Terraform (topics, ACLs, RBAC, connectors)• Designed and implemented a self-service Kafka provisioning solution to accelerate onboarding and improve governance• Implement Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, KSQLDB and Flink pipelines• Implement advanced security (OAuth2, SASL/SSL, RBAC, SSO, certificate lifecycle)• Optimize partitioning strategy, replication and broker performance• Implement observability using Confluent Control Center, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Dynatrace• Collaborate with development, architecture and security teams in Agile/SAFe environmentImpact:Improved developer autonomy, reduced provisioning delays and strengthened platform security posture.
EDUCATION
Université advendiste COSENDAI
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Software Engineering
Université de Sherbrooke
Postgraduate Degree, Cybersecurity
Polytechnique Montréal
Baccalauréat en ingénierie (B.Eng.) , génie logiciel
SKILLS
ABOUT KEVIN YOUTHA
Senior Java Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience in mission-critical banking environments (National Bank of Canada, Desjardins).I design and build high-performance Spring Boot microservices and enterprise event-driven systems using Kafka (Confluent). My recent work focuses on platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and secure streaming architectures in regulated financial environments.At Desjardins, I contribute to the Enterprise Event Streaming Foundation, where I help design and operate high-volume Kafka platforms and implemented a self-service provisioning solution using Terraform to accelerate developer onboarding and improve governance.Previously at National Bank of Canada, I worked on the Cards & Payments API domain, leading Java 17 migrations, developing secure microservices, and integrating Interac e-Transfer workflows with strong testing practices (JUnit5, Cucumber, integration and end-to-end testing) and observability (Datadog, Dynatrace).Core strengths:• Java 17 & Spring Boot microservices• Kafka platform engineering & performance optimization• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code• Secure financial systems & payment integrations• Detection engineering & security automationOpen to strategic contract mandates in backend, platform security and security automation.
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