Anna Povzner

Anna Povzner is an accomplished professional in the field of distributed systems, storage systems, storage performance management, and Quality of Service (QoS). She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from prestigious institutions like the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'.

With a rich educational background and a wealth of experience, Anna has held key positions at renowned organizations. She currently serves as the Manager of Kafka Cloud Fundamentals at Confluent. Previously, she worked as a Principal Engineer and Staff Software Engineer II at Confluent, and as a Founding Engineer at Formation Data Systems. Anna has also contributed her expertise as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and as a Performance Analysis Engineer at NetApp. Moreover, she has valuable experience from roles like Intern at NetApp, Research Intern at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Software Engineer in Platform Engineering at Beatnik.