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  • Bijoy Choudhury is a solutions engineering leader at Confluent, specializing in real-time data streaming, AI/ML integration, and enterprise-scale architectures. A veteran technical educator and architect, he focuses on driving customer success by leading a team of cloud enablement engineers to design and deliver high-impact proofs-of-concept and enable customers for use cases like real-time fraud detection and ML pipelines.

    As a technical author and evangelist, Bijoy actively contributes to the community by writing blogs on new streaming features, delivering technical webinars, and speaking at events. Prior to Confluent, he was a Senior Solutions Architect at VMware, guiding enterprise customers in their cloud-native transformations using Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu. He also spent over six years at Pivotal Software as a Principal Technical Instructor, where he designed and delivered official courseware for the Spring Framework, Cloud Foundry, and GemFire.

  • This blog was a collaborative effort between multiple Confluent employees.

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