Product manager and messaging expert with two decades working in the messaging space leading teams and teams of teams. Dan currently leads the cloud product team at Confluent.

Formerly the head of product for Azure’s messaging services (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Relay) he has deep experience at every level of the stack in Azure.

Former Microsoft MVP and consultant he spent the first two thirds of his career as a developer of distributed systems and messaging user before going on to lead messaging products in the cloud.

Author, speaker, and traveller.