Streaming Architecture in Practice: Real-Time Fraud Detection

📅 Date: November 18, 2025, 7:30 PM
✨ Organizer: DEV.BG – Software Architecture User Group
🎟️ Speaker: Monika Hristova, Lead Architect @ DraftKings
🏢 Supported by: DraftKings, Delasport, and myPOS

⚙️ About the Event:
How do you design and scale streaming-first architectures that power real-time decisions?
In this session, Monika Hristova, Lead Architect at DraftKings, will walk us through how her team builds and operates event-driven and streaming systems that enable real-time fraud detection, personalization, and critical business analytics.

You’ll explore a real-world production case and uncover architectural insights around domain events, unified data pipelines, and “data-as-a-platform” thinking – all crucial for modern large-scale systems.

📢 Agenda:
✨ How DraftKings designs Event-Driven and Streaming Architectures
✨ Real-world example: Real-Time Fraud Detection in production
✨ Architectural lessons: domain events, unified pipelines, data as a platform
✨ Streaming-first mindset: designing domain events with business value
✨ Q&A session

🎟️ About the Speaker:
Monika Hristova is a Lead Architect at DraftKings, specializing in real-time data and streaming architectures that drive core business decisions.
She has led cross-functional initiatives connecting engineering, data, and machine learning teams, building event-driven ecosystems with technologies like Apache Spark, Flink, and Databricks.
Monika’s passion lies in designing technically robust yet business-impactful architectures that enable faster experimentation and measurable results.

🎟️ Registration:
The event is free, but pre-registration is required:
🔗 Register here

🧑‍💻 User Group:
Part of the Software Architecture community by DEV.BG, organizing monthly sessions on large-scale system design, best practices, and emerging patterns.

🏢 Organized by:
DEV.BG – Bulgaria’s leading IT job board.
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