Confluent has named Stephen Deasy as its new chief technology officer (CTO).
He was most recently CTO at Benchling, where he built the company’s global product and platform teams.
In the current role, Deasy will lead Confluent’s engineering vision, strategy, and execution, guiding how the company builds and scales its data streaming platform.
Deasy will focus on advancing the platform to support AI and real-time intelligence at a global scale.
He will also be involved in strengthening core infrastructure for use cases, including agentic AI, hyper-personalised customer experiences, and automated operations.
Confluent’s co-founder and CEO, Jay Kreps, said, “Stephen brings a wealth of experience scaling engineering teams and building platforms that power the world’s most demanding systems.”
“With his leadership, we’ll move even faster to help customers turn data streams into a foundation for AI, smarter decisions, and entirely new classes of real-time applications,” he added.
Deasy joins Confluent with over 20 years of engineering leadership experience.
At Atlassian, he ran engineering for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and its cloud platform.
He has also held leadership roles at VMware, EMC, and Groupon.
“Confluent is defining what’s possible with streaming data, and I’m excited to be part of that journey,” said Deasy.
“I’ve seen firsthand how real-time data can transform businesses. Now, I get to work with the best in the field to make this powerful technology easier to adopt and more impactful for every organisation,” he added.
A passionate technologist, Deasy holds multiple patents and invests in early-stage technology companies.
