Naci Simsek
Naci Simsek is a Senior Customer Success Technical Manager at Ververica with over 17 years of experience in IT and Telecom. He began his career as a Customer Support Engineer at Nortel Networks, advancing through roles as Software Engineer, Engineering Team Lead, Project Manager, and Solutions Architect at Huawei. Over nearly a decade, he specialized in customer-facing big data solutions as a Platform Engineer, BI Engineer, and Data Engineer. In his current position, he supports customers in leveraging Apache Flink for real-time data streaming across on-premises and cloud environments.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Ege University, an MBA from Bahcesehir University, and the PMP® certification.
Ververica
Session
When does Apache Flink solve real problems versus add complexity? Explore use cases where Flink becomes essential such as fraud detection, CDC, real-time analytics versus when batch or Kafka Streams suffice. Compare stream engines (Flink, Spark) with platforms (Kafka, Pulsar) to confidently decide when streaming delivers value.