Shay Elkin, a man with short brown hair, is smiling at the camera. He is outdoors, on a rocky overlook with a forested, mountainous landscape blurred in the background. He is wearing a dark jacket and reflective sunglasses.

Shay Elkin is a staff software engineer at Confluent, where he develops the cloud-native version of Kafka.

He reads emails sent to shay at elkin.io.