Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight has 18 years of experience with architecture and development of large scale distributed systems and data pipelines. His current focus is on building cloud native applications using using a wide range of technologies such as Scala, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Kubernetes, gRPC and Vault.

Ryan first started Java Consulting in 1999 at the Sun Java Center and has since worked at a wide variety of companies such as Starbucks, DataStax, LightBend, Oracle, IBM, Tomax, Family Search and Riot Games. He enjoys sharing his experiences with others through training and presentations at conferences around the world.