Neha Narkhede

- co-founder and board director of Confluent.

- co-creator of the popular open source messaging system Apache Kafka.

- investor or advisor to companies including Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Stytch, Abacus AI, StarTree, Xata, Yugabyte, Airplane, Common Room, and more.

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I worked at LinkedIn where I led the Apache Kafka team, studied Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and

grew up in Pune, India.