Sep 23–26, 2019

Navinder Pal Singh Brar
Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Labs

Navinder Pal Singh Brar is a senior data engineer at Walmart Labs, where he’s been working with the Kafka ecosystem for the last couple of years, especially Kafka Streams, and created a Customer Data Platform on top of it to suit the company’s needs to process billions of customer events per day in real time and trigger certain machine learning models on each event. He’s been active in contributing back to Kafka Streams and filed three patents last year. Navinder is a regular speaker at local and international events on real-time stream processing, data platforms, and Kafka.

Sessions

11:20am–12:00pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1A 15/16

Building a multitenant data processing and model inferencing platform with Kafka Streams

Data Engineering and Architecture

Secondary topics: Data Integration and Data Processing, Data, Analytics, and AI Architecture, Retail and e-commerce, Streaming and IoT

Navinder Pal Singh Brar (Walmart Labs)

Each week 275 million people shop at Walmart, generating interaction and transaction data. Navinder Pal Singh Brar explains how the customer backbone team enables extraction, transformation, and storage of customer data to be served to other teams. At 5 billion events per day, the Kafka Streams cluster processes events from various channels and maintains a uniform identity of a customer. Read more.