Jun Rao

San Francisco Bay Area United States

co-founder at Confluent

Technology / Software / Internet

I am an engineer and researcher with a background on distributed systems and databases. I have worked on a few open source projects including Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra, as well as proprietary systems such as IBM DB2. I am the co-author of more than 20 referenced research papers, and the co-inventor of more than a dozen U.S. software patents.