Bengaluru: Confluent has announced the appointment of Stephen Deasy as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
In this role, Deasy will lead the company’s engineering vision, strategy, and execution, guiding how Confluent builds and scales its platform. His focus will be on advancing Confluent’s data streaming technology to power more AI-driven and real-time intelligence use cases at a global scale.
Under his leadership, Confluent aims to strengthen its core infrastructure and make it easier for organizations to deploy real-time applications such as agentic AI, hyper-personalized customer experiences, and automated operations.
“Stephen brings a wealth of experience scaling engineering teams and building platforms that power the world’s most demanding systems,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO at Confluent. “With his leadership, we’ll move even faster to help customers turn data streams into a foundation for AI, smarter decisions, and entirely new classes of real-time applications.”
Deasy brings over two decades of experience leading engineering teams at high-growth software companies. Most recently, he served as CTO of Benchling, where he built global product and platform teams. Prior to that, he led engineering for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and the cloud platform at Atlassian. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware, EMC, and Groupon. Beyond corporate leadership, he is a passionate technologist, holding multiple patents and investing in early-stage technology startups.
“Confluent is defining what’s possible with streaming data, and I’m excited to be part of that journey,” said Deasy. “I’ve seen firsthand how real-time data can transform businesses. Now, I get to work with the best in the field to make this powerful technology easier to adopt and more impactful for every organization.”
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