Champion
Viktor Gamov
Confluent
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about helping architects, developers, and operators craft systems that are not only low-latency and scalable but also highly available.
As a Java Champion and esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps. Viktor has co-authored “Enterprise Web Development” and “Apache Kafka® in Action”. Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor’s latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.
As a Java Champion and esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps. Viktor has co-authored “Enterprise Web Development” and “Apache Kafka® in Action”. Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor’s latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.
Badges 14
Talks 16
- Devoxx Greece 2026
From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Your Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry
- Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2025
From Tower of Babel to Babel Fish: Evolving Kafka Architecture With Schema Registry
- Devoxx Belgium 2025
RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off
- Devoxx Poland 2025
Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink
- Devoxx Poland 2025
RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off
- Devoxx Poland 2025
JetBrains Meetup
- Devoxx France 2025
Meet with an OSS project: LangChain4j
- Devoxx France 2025
Codepocalypse Now: LangChain4j vs. Spring AI
- Devoxx France 2025
Venez découvrir Apache Kafka et plongez dans l’univers de l’open source !
- Voxxed Days Ticino 2025
Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink
- Voxxed Days CERN 2025
One Does Not Simply Query a Stream
- Devoxx Poland 2022
Service Mesh for Java Developers
- Devoxx Poland 2022
Understanding Zero Trust Security with Service Mesh
- Devoxx UK 2021
All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing
- Devoxx Belgium 2017
Amazon alexa skills vs google home actions, the big java vui faceoff
- Devoxx US 2017
Java puzzlers ng s02: down the rabbit hole













