Hello everyone! I’m Mr. Smartloli, a senior Kafka practitioner and AI researcher. I’ve got a deep understanding of Kafka technology and tons of hands-on experience. I’ve worked on a commercial Kafka prototype and am the author of the open-source EFAK project.

I’ve spent a lot of time diving into Kafka’s source code, which allows me to do advanced custom development and solve tricky problems by tweaking the core system. I’m passionate about sharing what I know—my technical articles on Kafka have been widely read and appreciated for their depth and practicality.

As an AI researcher, I also explore ways to bring intelligence into distributed streaming systems, using AI to improve performance, monitoring, and analytics. I love blending cutting-edge AI techniques with Kafka to build smarter, high-performance data solutions.