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Viktor Gamov

Confluent

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. With a deep passion for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor has built a reputation for helping architects, developers, and operators design scalable, low-latency, and highly available systems. His ability to bridge complex technical concepts with practical applications has made him a trusted resource in the tech community.

As a Java Champion and an accomplished speaker, Viktor has captivated audiences at world-renowned industry events such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise includes distributed systems, real-time data streaming, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and DevOps, making him a go-to authority on modern software development practices.

Viktor also co-authors Manning's Kafka in Action.
Beyond his professional achievements, Viktor’s enthusiasm for technology extends to sharing his insights on open source, developer advocacy, and interests in fitness and food. Follow him on X and BlueSky (@gamussa)

Badges 14

Talks 16

  1. Devoxx Greece 2026

    From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Your Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry

    April 2026Data & AI

  2. Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2025

    From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry

    November 2025Data & AI

  3. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off

    October 2025GenAI & Beyond

  4. Devoxx Poland 2025

    RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off

    June 2025Data & AI

  5. Devoxx Poland 2025

    JetBrains Meetup

    June 2025Java & JVM

  6. Devoxx Poland 2025

    Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink

    June 2025Data & AI

  7. Devoxx France 2025

    Meet with an OSS project: LangChain4j

    April 2025Data & AI

  8. Devoxx France 2025

    Codepocalypse Now: LangChain4j vs. Spring AI

    April 2025Data & AI

  9. Devoxx France 2025

    Venez découvrir Apache Kafka et plongez dans l’univers de l’open source !

    April 2025Data & AI

  10. Voxxed Days Ticino 2025

    Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink

    January 2025Data & AI

  11. Voxxed Days CERN 2025

    One Does Not Simply Query a Stream

    January 2025Data & AI

  12. Devoxx Poland 2022

    Service Mesh for Java Developers

    June 2022Architecture

  13. Devoxx Poland 2022

    Understanding Zero Trust Security with Service Mesh

    June 2022Security

  14. Devoxx UK 2021

    All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing

    November 2021Build & Deploy

  15. Devoxx Belgium 2017

    Amazon alexa skills vs google home actions, the big java vui faceoff

    November 2017Mobile & IoT▶ Watch

  16. Devoxx US 2017

    Java puzzlers ng s02: down the rabbit hole

    March 2017java▶ Watch