Mickael Maison

Mickael Maison is a committer and the chair of the Project Management Committer (PMC) for Apache Kafka. He has been contributing to Apache Kafka and its wider ecosystem since 2015.

Mickael is a software engineer with over 10 years of software development experience. He is now working in the Kafka team at Red Hat and has accumulated a lot of expertise about Kafka Connect. Previously he worked at IBM where he was part of the Kafka team that runs hundreds of Kafka clusters for customers.

In addition, Mickael has developed and contributed to several connectors for Connect. He also has deep expertise in Connect’s internals, as he has made a number of code contributions to Connect itself and regularly reviews pull requests from the community on this component.

Finally, Mickael really enjoys sharing expertise and teaching. He has been writing monthly Kafka digests since 2018 and enjoys presenting at conferences.