Marcos Maia is a passionate software developer working at ING Bank in the Netherlands and has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. Fiery about technology, distributed systems, engineering culture and a lifelong learner, worked with multiple complex distributed systems and teams. Had the opportunity to work in multiple different countries and played many different roles, from engineering to architecture and consultancy mostly within the financial sector. Loves to share his experiences about engineering culture, distributed computing and of course Apache Kafka and has delivered many talks about his passions to leadership teams, software developers and customers.