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.

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. (which explains why the picture to the right is punny)

Before I started at Confluent, I worked at Mixpanel, and at Life360. And in what now feels like a different lifetime, I used to study mathematics at HUJI (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).

Whimsical Things I've Made

What a Week, Huh? is a bot on Bluesky that knows exactly how you feel every day.
An Addictive Codename is a true story about naming software projects.

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