Addison Huddy

Addison Huddy is an experienced product management professional currently serving as Vice President of Product for Kafka at Confluent since December 2018. Huddy's notable achievements include being recognized in the President's Club in 2019. Prior to Confluent, Huddy held positions at The Apache Software Foundation as a Committer on Apache Geode, and at Pivotal Software, Inc. as Principal Product Manager, where responsibilities included overseeing Apache Geode/Gemfire and Pivotal's Kubernetes distribution. Huddy's career began at Visa as a Product Manager, focusing on innovative product solutions for fraud detection and real-time advertising. Huddy holds a BA from UCLA and an MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology.