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Tom is a first-time founder and long-time data enthusiast, passionate about sharing technical deep dives, best practices, and hard-earned lessons from building Streambased. With nearly seven years of experience at Confluent, where he contributed to the core Kafka ecosystem through KIPs, commits, and upstream Apache work, he has lived and breathed Kafka since its early days. 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