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.

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

    Stream Processing Smackdown: Kafka Streams vs. Apache Flink

    June 2025Data & AI

  5. Devoxx Poland 2025

    RoboCoders: Judgment Day – AI IDEs Face Off

    June 2025Data & AI

  6. Devoxx Poland 2025

    JetBrains Meetup

    June 2025Java & JVM

  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