Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov

Viktor Gamov is the Head of Developer Advocacy at StarTree, a pioneering company in real-time analytics with Apache Pinot. With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about assisting architects, developers, and operators in crafting systems that are not only low in latency and scalable but also highly available.

As a Java Champion and an esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events like JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps. Viktor has co-authored “Enterprise Web Development” and “Apache Kafka® in Action”.  Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor’s latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.

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A Technical Deep Dive in Webassembly for Kong Gateway Wasm IO March 2023
5K Serverless Microservices with Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, KNative and Kong Infoshare October 2022
Testing Kafka Containers with Testcontainers: There and Back Again Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit October 2022
Understanding Zero Trust Security with Service Mesh Devoxx Poland June 2022
Service Mesh for Java Developers Devoxx Poland June 2022
Supercharge your Kubernetes Ingress with Kong Ingress Controller NDC Copenhagen June 2022
Tidy Up Microservices With Kafka and Kuma KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 May 2022
Testing Kafka Containers with Testcontainers: There and Back Again Kafka Summit London 2022 April 2022
Supercharge your Ingress with Kong gRPC Community Meetup October 2021
All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing Devoxx Poland August 2021
Bootiful Stream Processing with Spring and Kafka Devoxx Poland August 2021
You can go your way: Kafka without Zookeeper JPoint April 2021
Bootiful Stream Processing! JAVA Z-DAY April 2021
Serverless Kotlin and Apache Kafka® with Google Cloud and Confluent Cloud SnowOne February 2021
Apache Kafka DevOps with Kubernetes and GitOps Devnexus 2021 February 2021
Event Streaming with Kafka Streams Scale By the Bay​ November 2020
I don’t always test my streams, but when I do I do it in production jconf.dev September 2020
The Tales of Event-Driven Told by a Spring Developer SpringOne 2020 September 2020
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers NDC Porto April 2020
Who’s tweeting about #ScalaLove Scala Love April 2020
Streams Must Flow! SpringLive! March 2020
Do it in code (not YAML)! Unlock power of Kotlin DSL for Kubernetes DevNexus 2020 February 2020
Kafka on Kubernetes! DevNexus 2020 February 2020
Do it in code (not YAML)! Unlock power of Kotlin DSL for Kubernetes Devoops October 2019
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers NDC Sydney October 2019
Event-Driven Architectures for Spring Developers SpringOne Platform by Pivotal October 2019
Apache Kafka Event-Streaming Platform for .NET Developers SpringOne Platform by Pivotal October 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does it Really Have to Be “The Hard Way”? Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 September 2019
Bringing Observability to Your Stream Processing Oracle Openworld 2019 September 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should! Docker NYC Meetup July 2019
Building a Real-time Alerting, Analytics and Reporting System at Scale NYC In-Memory Computing Meetup June 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does it really have to be “The Hard Way”? Cloud Native Day June 2019
Streams must flow: developing fault-tolerant stream processing application with Kafka Streams and Kubernetes. Cloud Native Day June 2019
Keeping your Data Close and your Caches Hotter In-memory Computing Summit EU 2019 June 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does It Really Have To Be “The Hard Way”? Percona Live 2019 May 2019
The Awakening of the New Event-Driven (Beast) Kafka Summit London 2019 May 2019
Kafka Streams IQ: «Зачем нам база данных? Нам база не нужна!» Moscow JUG May 2019
Streams Must Flow: Deployment fault-tolerant stream processing application with Kafka Streams, Kubernetes Raleigh Apache Kafka® Meetup April 2019
Streams Must Flow, Deploying fault-tolerant stream processing applications to Kubernetes NYC Kubernetes and Cloud Native Meetups April 2019
Kafka on Kubernetes: Does it really have to be “The Hard Way”? Kafka Summit New York 2019 April 2019
Deploying Kafka Streams Applications with Docker and Kubernetes Portland JUG March 2019
Commit Logs in n Age of Microservices Seattle Event Driven Meetup March 2019
Streaming ETL in Practice with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, and KSQL Postgresconf NYC March 2019
What is Apache Kafka? Boston Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent March 2019
Crossing the Streams: Rethinking Stream Processing with KStreams and KSQL DevNexus 2019 March 2019
Who’s tweeting about Dick’s Sporting Goods and KSQL? Pittsburgh Apache Kafka® Meetup February 2019
Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action: Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline! Jfokus February 2019
Crossing the Streams: Rethinking Stream Processing with KStreams and KSQL Apache Kafka NYC Meetup January 2019
Cloud-Native Streaming Platform: Apache Kafka Meets Kubernetes Cloud-Native Data Day December 2018
Who's tweeting about #datascicon DataSciCon November 2018

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