Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Visionaries
V7. Neha Narkhede, 32
Confluent
Helping companies make sense of all the
data.
The
business world is drowning in data, but Neha Narkhede is teaching companies to
swim. As an engineer at LinkedIn, Narkhede helped invent an open-source
software platform called Apache Kafka to quickly process the site’s torrent of incoming data
from things like user clicks and profile updates. Sensing a big opportunity,
she co-founded Confluent, a startup that
builds Apache Kafka tools for companies, in 2014. She’s been the driving force
behind the platform’s wide adoption—Goldman Sachs uses it to help deliver
information to traders in real-time, Netflix to collect data for its video
recommendations, and Uber to analyze data for its surge-pricing system.
Confluent’s products allow companies to use the platform to, for example, sync
information across multiple data centers and monitor activity through a central
console.
“We view our
technology as a central nervous system for companies that aggregates data and
makes sense of it within milliseconds, at scale,” she says. “We think virtually
every company would benefit from that and we plan to bring it to them.”
—Elizabeth Woyke
—Elizabeth Woyke
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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