Founder Profile
Jay Kreps
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jay Kreps?
Jay Kreps is a founder of Confluent, which was founded in 2014 with Jun Rao and Neha Narkhede.
- Company founded
- Confluent
- Founded
- 2014
- Co-founders
- Jun Rao and Neha Narkhede
Founding Story
Jay Kreps co-founded Confluent in 2014 and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. While serving as a Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, Kreps led the team that invented Apache Kafka to handle the company's real-time messaging needs. He holds a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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