Dave Klein
Senior Developer Advocate
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Klein is a Senior Developer Advocate with a decade of experience helping developer teams extract more value from event and real-time data technologies. Based in Flagstaff, he has worked with leading data platforms—Confluent, Quix, Tabular, and now Imply—translating complex streaming and table formats like Kafka, Iceberg, and Druid into practical, developer-friendly workflows. His background as a Grails and Java developer and contributions to demo and tutorial repos show he combines hands-on engineering (build scripts, lambda handlers) with clear tutorial-driven advocacy. Comfortable across full-stack demos and distributed data tooling, he focuses on making high-throughput data systems approachable and fun to use. A longtime conference organizer and mentor, he brings both community-building chops and deep implementation experience to developer-facing roles.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
gradlew10
micronaut10
gradle10
java9
build-automation9
javas9
api8
apidoc8
demoscene6
kafka-connect4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/demo-scene
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Scripts and samples to support Confluent Demos, Talks, and Blogs. Not all of the examples in this repository are kept up to date. For automated tutorials and QA'd code, see https://github.com/confluentinc/tutorials/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Dave's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying project files across multiple services related to Micronaut applications. The commits demonstrate work on setting up or modifying build scripts (gradlew.bat files) in several project directories including 'micronaut-lambda-sink', 'micronaut-lambda', and 'micronaut-pizza-gen', indicating involvement in build processes and project structure. Additionally, the user updated Java code and associated imports related to 'OrderRequestHandler', suggesting work in application logic and potentially API integration.
confluentkafkaksqlelasticsearchsyslog
daveklein/python-event-streaming
Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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