New at Factor House: September 2026
Join Chad Harris, Solutions Architect, and Derek Troy-West, co-founder & CEO, for a look at what’s new across Factor House’s products this month. You’ll see live demos of recent capabilities from Chad, and get Derek’s perspective on why they were built the way they were.
You’ll leave with practical guidance for running your own data streaming operations day to day, plus a preview of what’s coming next. Bring your questions: Chad and Derek will open the floor throughout the session.
Speakers
Chad Harris
Solutions Architect, Factor House
Chad Harris is a Solutions Architect at Factor House, bringing 18 years of experience across software engineering, application architecture, and engineering leadership. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, high-volume transactional systems, and PCI-compliant architectures, most recently as an Engineering Leader at Block (formerly Square). At Factor House, Chad works directly with global enterprise customers to help them improve how they manage, govern, and observe their real-time data.
Derek Troy-West
Co-founder & CEO, Factor House
Derek Troy-West is co-founder and CEO of Factor House. A lifelong software engineer and long-standing member of the Clojure community, Derek has spent over two decades building distributed systems and streaming platforms for organisations across financial services, retail, and beyond. He founded Factor House in 2019 to give Kafka and Flink teams the tooling they need to ship faster and operate with confidence.
