diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/kafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/kafka/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4eeb8d975fd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/kafka/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, base, cmdliner, ocaml_lwt,
+  rdkafka, zlib }:
+
+buildDunePackage rec {
+  pname = "kafka";
+  version = "0.4";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "didier-wenzek";
+    repo = "ocaml-kafka";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0lb8x0wh7sf8v9mjwhq32azjz54kw49fsjfb7m76z4nhxfkjw5hy";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ base cmdliner ocaml_lwt zlib ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ rdkafka zlib ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/didier-wenzek/ocaml-kafka;
+    description = "OCaml bindings for Kafka";
+    license     = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.rixed ];
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index 20cd2965549f..5816902da4fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -374,6 +374,8 @@ let
 
     jsonm = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/jsonm { };
 
+    kafka = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/kafka { };
+
     ke = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ke { };
 
     lablgl = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lablgl { };