Tim van Baarsen is a creative software developer at ING Bank in the Netherlands and has been in the software development business for over 12 years. He is a strong proponent of open source technology a big fan of Spring Framework since the early versions and his interests lie in building scalable distributed systems using event driven micro-services. Tim enjoys speaking about his passion for the Spring ecosystem & Apache Kafka at both internal ING events as well at Kafka meetups and conferences within the Netherlands.