Announcing a New Hazelcast Hero

We’re excited to announce our new Hazelcast Hero, Martin W. Kirst!

Martin is a leading software architect for Oliver Wyman, a global strategic consultancy company. He has been crafting software and building large cloud platforms for three decades and has gained plenty of experience in various roles such as Software Engineering, Software Architecture, and Product Ownership across the Energy Retail, Logistic/Transport, Finance/Accounting, and Meteorology. He’s super passionate about technologies, tools and automation to drive the business. While developing the infrastructure for a large cloud-native workflow automation and orchestration platform, he contacted Hazelcast. It’s our pleasure to welcome Martin’s contribution of Ringbuffer support in Hazelcast’s Go Client SDK. You can connect with Martin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-w-kirst/

We had a quick chat with Martin about his experience with Hazelcast:

Fawaz: How did you get to know Hazelcast?

Martin: I got to know Hazelcast because of my engagement with Camunda‘s BPMN suite. They are using Hazelcast ringbuffers to decouple the core BPMN service from any kind of visualization or archiving service via a pub-sub event architecture.

F: What was your contribution to Hazelcast?

M: I did contribute (code) ringbuffer support in the Hazelcast Go client SDK

F: What advice would you give to developers who contribute to Hazelcast?

M: The Hazelcast Open Source Community is very open and that’s what I enjoy. E.g. chatting via Slack, or reviewing PRs live, and being honest to each other and sharing constructive feedback. It’s not about my personal ego, but rather the collaborative way of creating something truly awesome.

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You can watch our live stream about Level-Up Go Applications with Ringbuffers on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCCGc2rzDg&ab_channel=Hazelcast

You can also speak to Martin live at the upcoming Unconference event. Sign up free: https://hazelcast.com/lp/unconference/

More about Martin

Martin is working for Oliver Wyman, a global strategic consultancy company, as a leading software architect which consults and engineers for clients. Martin is crafting software and building large cloud platforms for three decades already. He gained plenty of experience in various roles such as Software Engineering, Software Architecture, and Product Ownership in the industries Energy Retail, Logistic/Transport, Finance/Accounting, and Meteorology. He’s super passionate about technologies & tools and automation to drive business. While developing the infrastructure for a large cloud native workflow automation and orchestration platform, he got in touch with Hazelcast. With Hazelcast’ engagement in Open Source as well as the very inviting community, it was a pleasure for him to contribute the Ringbuffer support in the Hazelcast’s Go Client SDK.