Bruce McGaughy

Senior Director Of Engineering, Kafka

Bruce McGaughy currently serves as the Senior Director of Engineering for Kafka at Confluent since March 2025. Prior experience includes significant roles at Amazon Web Services, where Bruce led the engineering teams for Amazon Redshift and Amazon QLDB from January 2019 to March 2025. Prior to AWS, Bruce was the CTO and Senior VP of Engineering at ProPlus Design Solutions from July 2008 to January 2017, overseeing a team of 120 developers. Bruce's earlier career includes distinguished engineering roles at Cadence Design Systems and Celestry Design Technologies, focusing on simulation technologies and R&D. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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