Confluent Announces Stephen Deasy as Its Chief Technology Officer

Confluent, the data streaming pioneer, has announced Stephen Deasy as its Chief Technology Officer. Stephen will guide how Confluent builds and scales its platform, leading the engineering team’s vision, strategy, and day-to-day execution. He’ll focus on advancing Confluent’s data streaming platform to power more AI and real-time intelligence at global scale. His leadership will further strengthen Confluent’s core infrastructure, enabling any organization to more easily build and deploy real-time use cases like agentic AI, hyper-personalized customer experiences, and automated operations.

“Stephen brings a wealth of experience scaling engineering teams and building platforms that power the world’s most demanding systems,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO at Confluent. “With his leadership, we’ll move even faster to help customers turn data streams into a foundation for AI, smarter decisions, and entirely new classes of real-time applications.”

Stephen brings more than 20 years of experience leading engineering at high-growth software companies. Most recently, he built Benchling's global product and platform teams as the company’s CTO. At Atlassian, he ran engineering for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and its cloud platform. He also held leadership roles at VMware, EMC, and Groupon. As a passionate technologist, Stephen holds multiple patents and invests in early-stage technology companies.

“Confluent is defining what’s possible with streaming data, and I’m excited to be part of that journey,” said Stephen Deasy. “I’ve seen firsthand how real-time data can transform businesses. Now, I get to work with the best in the field to make this powerful technology easier to adopt and more impactful for every organization.”