Kuassi is Director of Product Management at Oracle. He looks after the following product areas (i) Java connectivity to DB (Cloud, on-premises), in-place processing with DB embedded JVM (ii) MicroServices and DB connectivity, and related topics (Data & Tx models, Kubernetes, SAGAs, Compensation) (iii) Serverless Functions and DB connectivity (iv) Asynchronous and Reactive DB access, RxJava, Reactor, Akka-Streams, R2DBC (v) Zero downtime, multi-tenancy, and sharded DB for Java apps (vi) Turning Database tables into Hadoop and Spark datasources He holds an MS CS from the Programming Institute of University of Paris. He is a frequent speaker at IT events, including: JUG events and meetups, Scale by the Bay, JavaZone, DevNexus, Oracle Code One, Data Summit, Node Summit, Oracle User groups (UKOUG, DOAG, Sangam, BGOUG, OUGN, etc) Author: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555583296. @kmensah, https://medium.com/@kuassimensah, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmensah