A minimal black ink drawing on a torn piece of paper. The drawing deceipts a person sitting in a chair in front of a table. The person head is leaning on their hands which are on the table, in an apparent frustration.

Shay Elkin

About

My name is Shay (pronounced like the English word shy) Elkin, and I use he/him pronouns.

I live with my partner and our family in an old Victorian house in Berkeley, California.

Professional Life

I am a software engineer at Confluent, where I work on Kora, the cloud-native version of Apache Kafka.

Before I started at Confluent, I worked at various tech start-ups, the most famous of those are Mixpanel and Life360.

And in what now feels like a different life, I used to study mathematics at HUJI (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).

Writing

On naming software artifacts, and a true story about an addictive codename.

Contact Me

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