
Adam Bellemare
Principal Technologist, Technology Strategy Group @Confluent
Summary
Adam Bellemare is a Principal Technologist in the Technology Strategy Group at Confluent. He is the author of O'Reilly's Building Event-Driven Microservices (2020) and Building an Event-Driven Data Mesh (2023). His work focuses on event-driven architecture theory and practice, event-driven microservices, and event streaming design principles. Before Confluent Adam worked in multiple e-commerce companies as a big data platform engineer, focusing on building batch solutions using Apache Spark, HDFS, and early S3, before turning his attention to event-driven architectures. Since then he has been largely focused on building micro (and regular) services with Apache Kafka, and evangelizing the benefits of publishing useful business facts as a general-purpose data access layer.