Arpita Agarwal serves as a Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent, bringing extensive experience from enterprise software companies and startups (all acquired). Throughout her career, she has specialized in architecting and developing AI/ML algorithms, building robust data pipelines and creating enterprise products. Her work has predominantly focused on real-time event streaming at scale, leveraging high-performance platforms like Kafka. In her current role, Arpita applies her deep knowledge of application architectures and data pipelines to assist customers in the ANZ region in establishing event-streaming platforms using Confluent technologies.