Julien Chanaud

Co-Founder

Montpellier, Occitanie, France12 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of a unique data processing engine.
Led product management for multi-million dollar ARR products.
Expert in Kafka strategy and operations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused expert in data integration and event-driven architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ProcessingEvent-driven ArchitectureProduct ManagementSolutions ArchitectureKafka Strategy

Other Skills

Apache KafkaStream ProcessingDesign DocumentsProject ManagementCommunicationAnalytical SkillsDatabasesUser Experience (UX)Workload PrioritizationProduct RequirementsWritten CommunicationMarket AnalysisAgile MethodologiesService-Oriented Architecture (SOA).NET framework

About

I'm on a mission to make data integration effortless, so developers and organizations spend more time creating value, not fixing pipelines.I've spent my whole career in Enterprise Integration, which gives me a deep understanding of the challenges and frustrations faced by organizations in this data ecosystem, and has allowed me to build effective solutions to address them.

Experience

12 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Streemlined

2 roles

Founder

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Building Streemlined, a « Boring by Design » Data Processing engine.
https://www.streemlined.io/
What makes Streemlined different:
JSONata for stateless processing
End-to-end concerns with external service calls (HTTP, DB, etc.)
Focus on event-driven applications from the transactional world
Decentralized architecture (no central coordinator)
Streemlined comes batteries included:
HTTP Server to visualize/operate/monitor your running pipeline
Error handling and DLQ
Interactive and automated Tests
Metrics and health checks

Apache KafkaStream ProcessingData ProcessingEvent-Driven Architecture

Cooking something Kafka

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · 3 mos

Design DocumentsProject ManagementProduct Management

Conduktor

2 roles

Product Manager - Console & Self-service

Jul 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs

Led the end-to-end product management for two major products, driving them from inception to multi-million dollar ARR milestones.
Scale (Console UI for Kafka)
Scale+ (Self-service plaform for Kafka)

Design DocumentsCommunicationSolutions Architecture

Solutions Architect

Mar 2022 – Jul 2022 · 4 mos

Joined to help customers deploy and be successful with Conduktor products.
Expressed my opinion passionately, frequently, whether people wanted to hear it or not, about our features, our roadmap, our strategy, ...
Eventually got promoted to Product Manager as a containment strategy.

Design DocumentsProject ManagementKafka Strategy

Michelin

3 roles

Platform Engineer - Kafka

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Led the Kafka strategy and operations within Michelin’s manufacturing domain, scaling from a greenfield initiative to an enterprise-grade data streaming platform used across the organization.
Later initiated and led the development and lobbying of an open source solution for Central Platform teams, improving Kafka adoption and operational efficiency across all domain using Kafka at Michelin: https://github.com/michelin/ns4kafka
Designed, deployed, and operated 50+ Kafka clusters across diverse industrial environments.
Built robust CI/CD pipelines to manage cluster lifecycle tasks: upgrades, OS patching, monitoring, alerting, and more.
Created internal tools to provide self-service capabilities for application teams, enabling them to independently manage Kafka resources (topics, users, schemas).
Automated everything possible. From infrastructure provisioning to security controls to ensure consistency, reliability, and speed at scale.
Acted as the go-to Kafka expert, supporting project teams across the company in designing and optimizing streaming architectures.

Design DocumentsCommunication