Get Kafka-Nated S2E2: Viktor Kessler on Apache Iceberg, OSS, and Community

Viktor Kessler is both co-founder of Vakamo, a company specialising in governance for Iceberg, and a major contributor to Lakekeeper, an open-source Iceberg REST catalog. His contributions to the Iceberg aren’t limited to pull requests: Viktor is also the organiser of the Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe and hosted some fantastic events in 2025 that brought the Iceberg community together all over Europe from Dublin to Vilnius.

In this episode we’ll be picking Viktor’s brains about Iceberg Rest and his experiences working with Iceberg: as a founder building a business on Open Source, as a contributor pushing new features, and as a community organiser.