Zeke Dean
Principal Sales Engineer at Imply
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZeke Dean is a Principal Sales Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years building and delivering large-scale streaming and real-time systems, specializing in Apache Kafka, Pulsar, and Flink. He combines hands-on coding and architecture with customer-facing pre- and post-sales leadership, having designed compliant, scalable pipelines for major banks across India, the Middle East, and the U.S. Zeke has led and mentored pre-sales teams, run high-impact POCs and workshops, and consistently converted technical engagements into revenue while reducing onboarding and resolution times. He’s equally comfortable authoring production-grade distributed code, modifying Kubernetes Helm charts, or presenting at industry events, and brings entrepreneurial grit from founding and scaling multiple startups. Notably, his recent four-year deep focus on Kafka and experience operating streaming platforms on Kubernetes make him a pragmatic expert in navigating compliance-heavy, complex enterprise environments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Executive masters of technology management, MBA, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331575, Executive masters of technology management, MBA, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331575 at Columbia University School of Professional StudiesCity University of New York City CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology concentration in Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology concentration in Management Information Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstitutePrivate Equity, Private Equity at Harvard Extension SchoolHigh School, International Baccalaureate, High School, International Baccalaureate at The Dwight School
Github Skills (114)
server9
kafka9
nodejs9
javascript8
docker8
nltk8
microsoft-sql-server8
scala8
mysql8
postgresql7
golang7
multiarch7
avro7
sql7
mariadb7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
meticulo3366/cassandra-kafka-elasticsearch-open-source
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
a open source project to demonstrate a data pipeline from REST API all the way to elasticsearch through kafka connectors and some kind of data manipulation
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 4 months
data-pipelineelasticsearchkafka-connectorrestrest-api
meticulo3366/DaggerUINode
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 7 days
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