Kai Waehner

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Global Field CTO | Author | International Speaker | Follow me with Data in Motion

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Global Field CTO at Confluent working with customers, partners, and analysts across the world (AMER, EMEA, APAC). Writing articles and speaking at worldwide conferences / in podcasts about modern enterprise architectures and innovative open-source and cloud technologies. References: www.kai-waehner.de (including a free book: kai-waehner.de/ebook)

Follow me to learn about modernizing data architectures to build innovative use cases across industries. I talk and write about data streaming, business solutions, modern open-source and cloud technologies, hybrid integration scenarios, and big data analytics powered by AI/Machine Learning. Follow my blog for new publications: kai-waehner.de/newsletter

Some examples:

- Use Cases for Real-Time Data Streaming across Verticals: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/20/apache-kafka-event-streaming-use-cases-architectures-examples-real-world-across-industries/

- Serverless Event Streaming in a Cloud-native Data Lake Architecture: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2021/06/25/serverless-kafka-data-lake-cloud-native-hybrid-lake-house-architecture/

- Modern Integration Middleware - Apache Kafka vs. MQ, ESB, ETL, iPaaS: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2019/03/07/apache-kafka-middleware-mq-etl-esb-comparison/

- Edge- and Hybrid Cloud IoT Use Cases: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/14/use-cases-architectures-apache-kafka-edge-computing-industrial-iot-retail-store-cell-tower-train-factory/

- Real-Time Cybersecurity for the Cloud and Air-Gapped Zero Trust Environments: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2021/07/02/kafka-cybersecurity-siem-soar-part-1-of-6-data-in-motion-as-backbone/

- Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Real-time: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/27/streaming-machine-learning-kafka-native-model-server-deployment-rpc-embedded-streams/

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Berufserfahrung

  • Confluent

    Confluent

    7 Jahre 11 Monate

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      Global Field CTO at Confluent

      Confluent

      –Heute 4 Jahre 6 Monate

      Global (based in Germany)

      Field CTO working with customers, prospects, and partners across the world (US, EMEA, APAC), internal teams (sales, engineering, product, marketing, evangelism), public relations (industry analysts, press). References: www.kai-waehner.de

      TASKS:

      - Interact with senior executives and technical experts within the Fortune and Global 2000
      - Client-facing role explaining strategic and tactical concepts to customers
      - Conversations with executives and then switching to a very…

      Field CTO working with customers, prospects, and partners across the world (US, EMEA, APAC), internal teams (sales, engineering, product, marketing, evangelism), public relations (industry analysts, press). References: www.kai-waehner.de

      TASKS:

      - Interact with senior executives and technical experts within the Fortune and Global 2000
      - Client-facing role explaining strategic and tactical concepts to customers
      - Conversations with executives and then switching to a very technical conversation about architectures, solutions, features, roadmap
      - Intermediary between customers and product management (in both directions)
      - Remain up to date on industry trends to act as an industry thought leader and trusted advisor in internal discussions, customer meetings and public settings
      - Share industry experience and deep technical background in technologies like event streaming, middleware, databases, big data / machine learning, Internet of Things / Industrial IoT, legacy integration and migration, and other fields
      - Explain design principles for distributed computing architectures, hybrid cloud deployments, cloud-native architectures and microservices
      - Support customer success in large enterprise environments, but also help agile business units and innovative start-ups
      - Confidently present in front of audiences of all sizes (from 1 to 1000 and more people) to communicate the value proposition of strategic and tactical concepts and architectures for complex enterprise use cases
      - Roadmap presentations (in close sync with product management/engineering) about the company’s vision and strategy
      - Enablement of internal teams
      - Deliver tangible content (articles, whitepapers, slides, demos, etc.) to be used by various business units like sales, presales, marketing, partner, developer experience, product management, and others.
      - Work with research analysts (Gartner, Forrester)
      - External spokesperson
      - Support Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

    • Confluent Grafik

      Enterprise Architect and Global Field Engineer

      Confluent

      – 1 Jahr 3 Monate

      Munich Area, Germany

      Technical expert working with customers across the world (Europe, US, Middle East, Asia, Australia), with internal teams (product, engineering, sales, marketing, evangelism), industry analysts, and press. References: www.kai-waehner.de

    • Confluent Grafik

      Technology Evangelist

      Confluent

      – 2 Jahre 4 Monate

      Erlangen Area, Germany

      Technology Evangelist at Confluent working on cutting edge technologies like Apache Kafka, Hadoop and Spark. Tasks include conference talks, publications, sales, presales, marketing, community management and working with other groups like product management and engineering.

  • TIBCO Software Inc.

    TIBCO Software Inc.

    3 Jahre 2 Monate

    • TIBCO Software Inc. Grafik

      Community Director and Technology Evangelist

      TIBCO Software Inc.

      – 11 Monaten

      Munich Area, Germany

      TIBCO is a leading independent provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software. TIBCO’s software platform enables customers to create flexible, event-driven applications and deliver real-time, actionable insights.

      Kai’s is part of the global Customer Success Management (CSM) team at TIBCO. His tasks as thought leader include:
      • Increase and Improvement of the TIBCO community
      • Bidirectional communication with product management, product marketing, sales, presales…

      TIBCO is a leading independent provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software. TIBCO’s software platform enables customers to create flexible, event-driven applications and deliver real-time, actionable insights.

      Kai’s is part of the global Customer Success Management (CSM) team at TIBCO. His tasks as thought leader include:
      • Increase and Improvement of the TIBCO community
      • Bidirectional communication with product management, product marketing, sales, presales, customers, prospects and partners about innovative projects, new products / features and best practices
      • Creation of community content (such as wiki, blog posts and video recordings) and external publications
      • Presentations at international conferences, meet-ups and other events
      • Encouragement of other thought leaders (employees, customers and community members) to contribute and create valuable content

    • TIBCO Software Inc. Grafik

      Technical Lead / International Presales

      TIBCO Software Inc.

      – 2 Jahre 3 Monate

      Munich Area, Germany

      Tibco is a leading independent provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software. Tibco’s software platform enables customers to create flexible, event-driven applications and deliver real-time, actionable insights.

      Kai analyses and solves complex integration scenarios for prospects and customers using Tibco's real-time integration and analytics portfolio. His main area of expertise lies within the fields of Application Integration, Data Management, Big Data (especially…

      Tibco is a leading independent provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software. Tibco’s software platform enables customers to create flexible, event-driven applications and deliver real-time, actionable insights.

      Kai analyses and solves complex integration scenarios for prospects and customers using Tibco's real-time integration and analytics portfolio. His main area of expertise lies within the fields of Application Integration, Data Management, Big Data (especially Hadoop), Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Complex Event / Stream Processing, Realtime Analytics, Cloud Computing, API Management and Enterprise Architecture Management.

  • Talend Grafik

    Presales Consultant EMEA

    Talend

    – 1 Jahr 5 Monate

    Germany

    Talend is a leading provider of open source integration software.

    Kai works as presales in close collaboration with sales representatives. His main tasks are answering RFIs and realizing proof of concepts (POC) for prospects. Additional tasks are technology research, competitive analysis, product management, beta testing, and support of human resources with job interviews.

    Kai is very active in marketing by doing presentations at Talend events and international conferences. He…

    Talend is a leading provider of open source integration software.

    Kai works as presales in close collaboration with sales representatives. His main tasks are answering RFIs and realizing proof of concepts (POC) for prospects. Additional tasks are technology research, competitive analysis, product management, beta testing, and support of human resources with job interviews.

    Kai is very active in marketing by doing presentations at Talend events and international conferences. He also writes professional articles for online and print magazines.

    Kai has a focus especially on Data Integration, Application Integration, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Cloud Computing, Business Process Management (BPM), Big Data (especially Hadoop), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Quality, and Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM).

  • IT Consultant

    MaibornWolff et al GmbH

    – 2 Jahre 8 Monate

    Vendor-independent IT-Consulting (Enterprise Architecture Management, Product /
    Technology Evaluations, Requirements Engineering / RFIs), Systems Integration (Java EE, MQ, ESB, Legacy Systems), Software Development (Analysis, Design, Implementation, Sub Project Manager, Scrum), Marketing (Professional Articles, Talks and Workshops at international IT Conferences), Recruiting, Board of Innovation (Technology and Methodics)

  • Junior IT Consultant

    essendi it GmbH

    – 1 Jahr 1 Monat

    Vendor-independent IT-Consulting (Technology Evaluations, Prototyping), Systems Integration (Java EE, MQ, ESB, Legacy Systems), Software Development (Analysis, Design, Implementation)

  • Senacor Technologies Grafik

    Diplomate

    Senacor Technologies

    – 6 Monaten

    Nürnberg Area, Germany

    Service-Oriented Architecture – Specification of a Decision Framework for an Enterprise Service Bus through the Analysis of Different Industries

  • Working Student

    Client Vela GmbH

    – 10 Monaten

    Bamberg Area, Germany

    Software Development (.NET C# / ASP.NET, SQL Server, Migration CVS to Subversion), Process Documentation

  • DATEV eG Grafik

    Working Student

    DATEV eG

    – 2 Jahre 3 Monate

    Nuremberg, Germany

    Data Transformation and Integration (DB2, SQL Server, Access, Excel, XML, SGML, Photoshop), Process Documentation

Ausbildung

  • University of Bamberg

    Diploma Commercial Information Technology, Business Studies

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  • Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium-Forchheim

    Higher School Certificate Science-oriented

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Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten

Veröffentlichungen

  • Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)—Friends, Enemies, or Frenemies?

    Confluent Blog

    This blog post shows why so many enterprises leverage the open source ecosystem of Apache Kafka for successful integration of different legacy and modern applications, and how this differs but also complements existing integration solutions like ESB or ETL tools.

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  • How to Avoid the Anti-Pattern in Analytics: Three Keys for Machine Learning

    RTInsights

    When a different analytic model is used in training versus deployment, results can be disastrous. Here’s how to avoid the anti-pattern.

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  • Using Visual Analytics for Better Decisions: an Online Guide

    RTInsights

    How visual analytics helps businesses make better decisions, and what to look for when evaluating different tools.

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  • How to Apply Machine Learning to Event Processing

    RTInsights

    How do you combine historical Big Data with machine learning for real-time analytics? An approach is outlined with different software vendors, business use cases, and best practices.

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  • Do Good Microservices Architectures Spell the Death of the Enterprise Service Bus?

    Voxxed

    These days, it seems like everybody is talking about microservices. You can read a lot about it in hundreds of articles and blog posts. This article is about the challenges, requirements and best practices for creating a good microservices architecture, and what role an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) plays in this game.

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  • Real-Time Stream Processing as Game Changer in a Big Data World with Hadoop and Data Warehouse

    InfoQ

    The demand for stream processing is increasing a lot these days. The reason is that often processing big volumes of data is not enough. Data has to be processed fast, so that a firm can react to changing business conditions in real time. A “too late architecture” cannot realize these use cases. This article discusses what stream processing is, how it fits into a big data architecture with Hadoop and a data warehouse (DWH), when stream processing makes sense, and what technologies and products…

    The demand for stream processing is increasing a lot these days. The reason is that often processing big volumes of data is not enough. Data has to be processed fast, so that a firm can react to changing business conditions in real time. A “too late architecture” cannot realize these use cases. This article discusses what stream processing is, how it fits into a big data architecture with Hadoop and a data warehouse (DWH), when stream processing makes sense, and what technologies and products you can choose from.

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  • Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?

    InfoQ

    Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it. However, when you have decided to use Hadoop, the first question is how to start and which product to choose for your big data processes. Several alternatives exist for installing a version of Hadoop and realizing big data…

    Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it. However, when you have decided to use Hadoop, the first question is how to start and which product to choose for your big data processes. Several alternatives exist for installing a version of Hadoop and realizing big data processes. This article discusses different alternatives and recommends when to use which one.

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  • Choosing the Right ESB for Your Integration Needs

    InfoQ

    Different applications within companies and between different companies need to communicate with each other. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been established as a tool to support application integration. But what is an ESB? When is it better to use an integration suite? And which product is best suited for the next project? This article explains why there is no silver bullet and why an ESB can also be the wrong choice. Selecting the right product is essential for project success.

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  • Free integration frameworks on the Java platform

    The H Developer

    In addition to the increased data traffic between and within companies and organisations, the number of applications to be integrated has also been rising steadily. Despite the multitude of technologies, protocols and data formats, the integration of these applications should ideally allow standardised modelling, efficient implementation and automated testing. Spring Integration, Mule and Apache Camel are three open source integration frameworks that provide this functionality in the Java world.

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  • Lessons Learned: Best Practices for a Successful Introduction of Business Process Management (BPM)

    Service Technology Magazine

    Business Process Management (BPM) is complex, expensive, and often fails! If you agree (in the year of 2012+), then you should read the following rules to do BPM correctly in your next project.

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