Stephen Deasy, new CTO at Confluent

The company specialized in data streaming, Confluent, appoints Stephen Deasy as chief technology officer. You will lead the development and expansion of the platform leading its vision and strategy.

Deasy will focus on enhancing Confluent's data streaming platform to drive more AI and real-time intelligence on a global scale. His leadership will further strengthen Confluent's core infrastructure, enabling any organization to more easily create and deploy real-time use cases, such as agential artificial intelligence, las hyper-personalized customer experiences and the automated operations.

Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent, said: "Stephen brings deep experience scaling engineering teams and building platforms that power the world's most demanding systems. With his leadership, we will move even faster to help customers turn data streams into a foundation for artificial intelligence, smarter decision-making, and entirely new classes of real-time applications."

Stephen Deasy has more than 20 years of experience Leading engineering at high-growth software companies. Most recently, he built Benchling's global product and platform teams as the company's chief technology officer. At Atlassian, he led engineering for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and their cloud platform. He has also held leadership positions at VMware, EMC and Groupon. A technology enthusiast, Stephen holds multiple patents and invests in early-stage technology companies.

"Confluent is defining what is possible with streaming data, and I am excited to be part of that journey. I have seen firsthand how real-time data can transform businesses. Now I have the opportunity to work with the best in the field to make this powerful technology easier to adopt and more relevant for all organizations," concludes Deasy.