Conduktor Kafka Operations Platform

Conduktor Inc., headquartered in New York with offices in London, was founded in 2020 by Nicolas Orban, Stephane Derosiaux and Stephane Maarek. It helps companies that run Apache Kafka let many teams build on streaming data safely, without the platform team becoming a bottleneck for access, quality and cost questions.

Conduktor Console is a multi-cluster interface for topics, schemas, connectors and consumers with monitoring, alerts, SSO, RBAC, PII masking, audit trails and cost insights. Conduktor Gateway is a Kafka proxy that adds routing, failover, virtual clusters for multi-tenancy, SQL on topics, schema validation and field-level encryption without changing applications, and a Schema Registry Proxy adds policies to schema access. It works with Confluent, Amazon MSK, Redpanda, Aiven, Cloudera and self-managed Kafka. Customers include IKEA, Honda, Lufthansa, ING, Deloitte, Swiss Post and Bitvavo.

• Console: Multi-cluster Kafka UI for topics, schemas, connectors, monitoring and alerts.
• Gateway proxy: Routing, failover, virtual clusters and SQL on topics without client changes.
• Data protection: Field-level encryption, PII masking, SSO, RBAC and audit trails.
• Governance: Ownership, data-quality rules, resource policies and live stream lineage.
• Chargeback: Attributes Kafka cost to applications, teams and business units.
• AI and automation: MCP access inheriting user RBAC, CLI, Terraform, API and GitOps.

A Vietnamese bank can encrypt and mask customer fields in Kafka topics so analytics teams use payment events without exposing personal data. A conglomerate can run one Kafka cluster as virtual clusters for several subsidiaries with separate access and chargeback. A fintech can give developers self-service topic creation within policies while keeping audit trails for regulators.

Application teams get self-service access to Kafka within guardrails, reducing tickets to the platform team; Swiss Post onboarded more than 800 additional users and 5x more applications, according to the site. Field-level encryption, masking and audit trails help meet GDPR, DORA and MiCA requirements, as Bitvavo did for more than 1.5 million users. Chargeback ties Kafka spend to teams, and an IoT customer on Amazon MSK reports 10x better utilization and 70% faster provisioning.

Kafka has become shared infrastructure in banks, retailers and manufacturers, so governance, security and cost control now matter as much as throughput. Regulations such as GDPR, DORA and data protection laws push companies to encrypt and audit streaming data. In Vietnam, the Personal Data Protection Law and rapid adoption of event streaming in banking and e-commerce create similar needs.

Founded in 2020; operated by Conduktor Inc., headquartered at 154 W 14th Street, New York, with an office in London. Raised a 20 million USD Series A led by Accel in 2021 and a 30 million USD Series B in 2024; investors include RTP Global, M12, Frontline and Ansa. A free Gateway Community Edition is available.