GoodLabs Studio’s Linus Altman-Kurosaki Recognized as the Winner of the 2025 Confluent Partner Evangelist of the Year - AMER
October 28, 2025 – GoodLabs Studio today announced its Managing Partner of US Sales, Linus Altman-Kurosaki has been named the 2025 Confluent Partner Evangelist of the Year – AMER. Mr. Altman-Kurosaki was honored alongside other global Confluent partners that have shown exceptional commitment to driving customer value through Confluent’s data streaming platform.
CEO Thomas Lo shared: “Congratulations to our managing partner, my boy (inside joke) Linus, on being named Confluent’s Evangelist of the Year. As a trusted engineering partner of Confluent, Linus and our high-caliber AI research and software engineering team bring deep expertise in Streaming AI, Flink, KStream, and Confluent infrastructure optimization to empower Confluent’s customers with real-time intelligence. Well deserved, Linus! Let’s keep delivering the best outcomes for our customers!”
The Confluent Partner Awards for AMER recognizes regional partners that go above and beyond to deliver transformative customer value with data streaming–whether that’s through real-time business solutions or implementing cutting-edge technologies. The 11 regional award categories reflect the many ways partners across system integrations, cloud service providers, and technology partners leverage Confluent’s complete data streaming platform to connect, stream, govern, and process data as it happens.
Linus Altman-Kurosaki provided outstanding services and solutions as the 2025 Confluent Partner Evangelist of the Year – AMER. This award recognizes an outstanding individual who has served as an evangelist, and grown Confluent’s brand through their own concentrated efforts. This individual is not only a partner, but an extension of the Confluent team in the broader ecosystem and customer base.
"Our partner ecosystem is fueled by bold innovation and close collaboration with customers, creating new opportunities to transform businesses with data," said Derek Russell, Director of Partner Success AMER at Confluent. “The 2025 Confluent Partner Awards honors the partnerships that are pushing the boundaries through creativity and impact, helping organizations innovate faster and unlock the full potential of real-time data.”
Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs, GoodLabs Studio stands as a beacon of innovation, insight, and applied expertise, trusted by many Fortune 100 companies and prestigious research journals.
The company uniquely unites domain experts, esteemed postdoc Ph.D. A.I. researchers and industry-savvy software engineers under a single umbrella, embodying a synergy of theoretical brilliance and practical acumen. GoodLabs Studio's team diversified skills and profound knowledge converge to fuel transformative solutions, seamlessly blending academia's peer-reviewed rigor with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. With a reputation for excellence validated by industry giants and scholarly publications alike, GoodLabs Studio stands as a paragon of innovative problem-solving and strategic, future-focused insight.
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