Tom Scott
Founder and CEO @Streambased
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and CEO @Streambased
At Streambased I maintain a healthy balance of Building (distributed systems in Java on Kafka), Strategy, Sales and Marketing.Streambased is building indexes over Kafka and then using them to provide logical views. Surface your Kafka as Iceberg, S3, MCP or JDBC/ODBC. All with no data movement.
EDUCATION
Leeds Metropolitan University
BA Creative Music And Sound Technology, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians
University Of Greenwich
MSc Software Engineering, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT TOM SCOTT
I\'m a first-time founder and long-time data enthusiast, here to share technical deep dives, best practices, and war stories from building Streambased.Why Connect?I live and breathe Kafka. As an early employee of Confluent (the company started by Kafka’s original creators). I\'ve spent nearly 7 years developing core technology across the Kafka ecosystem, including contributing KIPs and commits to the upstream Apache project.I’m now building Streambased. A data platform that indexes Kafka for fast, consistent and cost effective real-time analytics.Why Stop scrolling? Data Engineers: expect to see something new, not the usual ETL drudgery BI Engineers and Data Scientists: expect to see all that wonderful new real-time data AI/ML Engineers: expect to see the real-time context needed to produce relevant responses and make smart decisionsExpect me to post on:🧊 Table formats like Apache Iceberg Real-time systems like Apache Kafka Analytics engines like Apache Spark Query engines like Trino🤖 AI innovations like MCPYou’ll get: Bite-sized insights on emerging tools & features Deep dives into the systems that power modern data stacks War Stories from the data trenchesI want to take the Kafka crowd beyond a niche set of specialists so join me on the journey whatever your background: Follow me Want to chat in person- book a call -> https://calendly.com/tom-streambased/30min Sign up to ZeroCopy, an at most once a week newsletter curated to be timely, relevant, and genuinely useful-> https://blog.streambased.io/
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