Principal Engineer & Data ArchitectElastic Community Organizer
Joseph Paulo Mantuano
10+ years engineering distributed systems, low-latency Kafka event fabrics, full-text search platforms (Elasticsearch, Solr), and Apache Iceberg lakehouses across banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce.
9TB/Day Kafka Fabric495 MB/s Throughput30d → 1h Index TuningIceberg • Confluent Cloud
Featured Case Study & ArchitectureAugust 2026
Exploring Confluent Tableflow: Bridging Kafka and Modern Data Lake Formats
An in-depth evaluation of Confluent Tableflow on AWS: zero-egress S3 tiering, automated Iceberg metadata compaction, Kora-based consumption, and operational namespace constraints.