Engineering Daily podcast has various podcasts that come up around this. One that comes to mind was the one with Slack. Slack had hyper-growth, they went out and hired individuals who had already tackled these problems at the same numbers or larger.

You get hired at a company, and you look around at what FAANG is using, you implement that because you can always say, "But it works at Netflix". You build up immense expertise in the project, the tool, etc.

Switch jobs, ignore everything the existing company is doing, where the landscape is going and shove your agenda of implementing the same thing such as Kafka. Measure everything.

Look like the saviour of the company. Point to this, ask for massive stock compensation, bonus, etc. based on the metrics that make you look good.