Levani is a tech lead at TransferWise, leading stream processing platform development efforts. He Initially joined Fraud prevention team, but quickly spotted opportunity to solve customers’ problems with his passion in distributed streams. Besides his daily work, Levani is passionate about open source, JVM internals and hacking not-for-production things with byte code generators.
Levani Kokhreidze
Levani Kokhreidze
Building stream processing platform in financial institution
Thursday, September 26 – Day 1 - 14:30 - Room 2
TransferWise started working with Kafka Streams to scale data processing capabilities across different domains. While proof of concept setup of Kafka Streams is easy, building necessary infrastructure and tooling around it to achieve highly available platform is not so trivial. It’s especially hard for financial organizations where data consistency and integrity comes first. In this talk we will walk you through the TransferWise’s journey in adopting of stream processing and discuss some interesting topics such as: running stateful Kafka Streams applications on Kubernetes, data reconciliation, high availability and adoption of new technology in versatile autonomous team environment.