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