Who is shaun peddie?

Shaun Peddie is a Canadian computer scientist and software engineer. He is best known for his work on the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform. Peddie is a co-founder of Confluent, a company that provides commercial support and services for Kafka.

Peddie began his career at Oracle, where he worked on the development of the Oracle database. He later joined LinkedIn, where he led the development of the company's real-time data infrastructure. In 2014, he co-founded Confluent with Jay Kreps and Neha Narkhede.

Peddie is a frequent speaker at conferences and events on distributed systems and real-time data processing. He is also an active contributor to the open source community, and has authored several open source projects, including the Kafka Streams API.

Peddie holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.