From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov
From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22
Mar 09, 2026 Season 2 Episode 22
Confluent

Adi Polak talks to Sage Pierce (Indeed) about his career in software engineering and event-driven architectures. Sage’s first job: Java Swing development at a Department of Defense–affiliated research lab. His challenge: working at Indeed on event-driven views and IMI to join data across domains in a polyglot microservices world.

Sage's Atleon project: https://github.com/atleon 

SEASON 2
Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov
Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed
Music by Coastal Kites
Artwork by Phil Vo

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