Ankit Kumar is Head of Developer & Customer Success at Aklivity, where he builds open source infrastructure for event-driven systems. He is a core contributor to Zilla, a multi-protocol service and event proxy that lets developers expose Kafka over REST, gRPC, MQTT, and more without writing a single line of code. As an AsyncAPI Ambassador and open source contributor, Ankit has spent his career closing the gap between streaming infrastructure and the developers who use it. He previously built and operated large-scale streaming and data platforms at Walmart and Cloudera. He is a regular speaker at developer conferences globally.