Stephane is a solutions architect, consultant and software developer that has a particular interest in all things related to big data and analytics. He's also a best seller instructor on Udemy for his courses in Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi and AWS Lambda! He loves Apache Kafka. He regularly contributes to the Apache Kafka project and wrote a guest blog post featured on the Confluent website, the company behind Apache Kafka. He also is an AWS certified Solutions Architect, and has many years of experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Tableau, Spotfire, Docker and Ansible amongst many others. His favourite programming languages are Scala and Python, and he plans on learning Go soon. During his spare time he enjoys cooking, practicing yoga, surfing, watching TV shows, and traveling to awesome destinations!
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Stephane Maarek
- - Stephane's introduction to both Kafka and teaching
- - Stephane's nomadic lifestyle
- - The appeal of teaching
- - Lessons learned from creating courses
- - Stephane's future
- - The things that "light Stephane up"
- - How Stephane got started in software
- - How Stephane learns
- - Stephane's story of failure - creating an app without any marketing that didn't get a strong user base
- - Stephane's success story - helping students progress and succeed
- - Stephane's book recommendation
- - The things that have Stephane most excited
- - Stephane's causes of pain and suffering
- - Stephane's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
Stephane's book recommendation:
Stephane's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Never stop learning and learn the next thing
- Make lists
- Put in an effort - just try