Dr. Andrew Sellers leads Confluent's Technology Strategy Group, a team of research technologists, Field CTOs, and customer advisory leaders supporting product and GTM strategy development, competitive analysis, and thought leadership. Andrew has previously brought several AI-enabled commercial offerings to market as a technology leader, applying data streaming extensively to ensure application data is well contextualized and current. Data streaming commercial products he designed, built, and delivered have generated tens of millions in revenue.  He is an author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications and a co-inventor listed on over 100 patents, primarily related to the application of AI tools to problems in cybersecurity and risk management. 

Andrew received his PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford, where his dissertation investigated the use of AI to automate web-scale data extraction.  He was the valedictorian of his class at the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Truman Scholar.