Loïc Divad
Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLoïc Divad is a seasoned software engineer with 22 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Spotify in Stockholm and specializing in Scala and event streaming. Trained at ISEP, he cut his teeth on data engineering at Xebia France and has deep practical expertise with Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark and big data platforms. Beyond hands-on development, Loïc has a strong community footprint—co-founding DataXDay, serving as a Confluent Community Catalyst, and shaping Kafka Summit programs—reflecting his commitment to knowledge sharing through training, blogging, and conference talks. He pairs production experience in large enterprises like Société Générale and Publicis Sapient with a knack for making complex distributed systems understandable to teams. An interesting non-obvious detail: he combines developer work with sustained public-facing teaching, having authored technical posts in both French and English and delivered formal trainings on event stream applications and Confluent operations.
22 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Architecture of Information Systems, Master, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Architecture of Information Systems, Master at Institut supérieur d'Electronique de ParisMPSI - MP, MPSI - MP at Cycle Préparatoire Baimbridge High School, Guadeloupe
French, English
Github Skills (39)
kafka10
kafka-streams10
ksqldb10
stream-processing10
apache-kafka10
confluent9
data-stream9
java9
scala9
data-warehouse9
scalajs9
streaming9
database9
data-visualization8
data-analytics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DivLoic/notebook
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
DivLoic/xke-ratatouille
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
:pill:Poison pills and Kafka Streams demo:curry::rat:
Contributions:44 commits, 8 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 5 months
kafka-streams
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