Adam Bellemare

Adam is a Staff Technologist, Office of the CTO at Confluent. He has worked on a wide range of projects, including event-driven data mesh theory and proof of concepts, event-driven microservice strategies, and event and event stream design principles. Before Confluent Adam worked in multiple e-commerce companies as a big data platform engineer, focusing on building batch solutions using Apache Spark and HDFS, before turning his attention to event-driven architectures. Since then he has been largely focused on building micro (and regular) services with Apache Kafka, and evangelizing the benefits of publishing useful business facts as a general-purpose data access layer. Adam is the author of O'Reilly's Building Event-Driven Microservices (2020) and Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh (2023).