Apache Flink® & Everything Streaming Data
Speakers
Barcelona 2025
About the speakers
Meet the experts from global companies like Apple, Pinterest, Uber, Netflix, Bloomberg, and more, who have built scalable streaming infrastructure and enterprise-grade applications.
Hear why and how they use Flink as the stream processing engine of choice for large-scale stateful applications, including real-time analytics, real-time search and content ranking, fraud/anomaly/threat detection.
Speakers
- Aitor AlgortaHead of EngineeringAiry
Aitor Algorta is Head of Engineering at Airy, where he builds open source data streaming tools with Kafka and explores the intersection of AI and real-time systems. He’s a full stack engineer, open source contributor, and avid kayaker based in Spain.
- Andre TeixeiraSoftware EngineerKuehne+Nagel
André stated his journey in software development at age 15 in high school when he realised he could tell the computer what to do instead of being told how to use it. He started his professional career in 2012 as an intern in a software company working on the education sector, writing code using the Microsoft stack. In 2019 he moved to a global company in the software security landscape, he created language parsing and code flow algorithms to detect vulnerabilities in the customer's source code. Just last year André joined Kühne+Nagel where he started getting into big data processing using Flink on a daily basis to help the company accomplish real time data streaming.
- Antonio Davide CaliStaff Data EngineerJustEat Takeaway
Antonio is a Staff Data Engineer at JustEatTakeaway.com, where he leads the streaming ingestion team. His mission? To build self-service tools that empower teams across the company to land their data smoothly onto the Data Platform.
Antonio has worked across Europe for companies like LEGO and IKEA, proving he’s not afraid of assembling complex systems (or flat-pack furniture). He dove into the world of Apache Flink about a year and a half ago and has since been bravely battling stream processing dragons, including the questionable life choice of writing a custom BigQuery Flink Source Connector.
The most interesting thing about him? Easily his dog, named Spark. Yes, that Spark. It’s complicated.
An Italian man living in London.
I have a dog named Spark. - Archit GoyalSr. Software EngineerLinkedIn
Archit is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn and a founding member of the Flink Batch team. He brings experience in platformization and productionization, with a strong focus on making Flink Batch a reliable and scalable solution for large-scale data processing.
- Bahar PattarkineStaff Software EngineerPlayStation
Bahar Pattarkine is a Staff Software Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment, where he develops scalable backend systems that power PlayStation’s global gaming experiences. He has worked on improving the reliability and efficiency of large-scale, distributed services that support millions of players worldwide. Bahar is currently exploring Apache Flink to bring real-time data processing into production systems and is excited to share his learning journey with the broader community.
- Ben GambleField CTOVerverica
Ben Gamble serves as Field CTO at Ververica. In his role, he focuses on developing messaging and materials to engage with key stakeholders, including clients, prospects, and industry analysts.
With a background primarily in engineering leadership and entrepreneurship, Ben has extensive experience building and managing engineering teams across various sectors, including logistics, gaming, and mobile applications. His expertise lies in developing solutions centered around real-world interactions, particularly in areas such as GPS-based technologies, augmented reality, and multi-user collaboration.
Outside of his professional life, Ben is an avid technology enthusiast. He enjoys playing and creating video games and trading cards. Ben balances his career with family life, being a father to two young children and a caretaker to three pet ducks. - Boyuan HuangProduct Director of AI and BigData platformAlibaba Cloud
Senior Staff Product Manager of Alibaba Cloud, taking charge for the Platform for AI (PAI), Platform for Data (DataWorks) and AI Search products. More than 15 years experience in AI and Big Data development and products design. Before join Alibaba, Boyuan worked as Senior Development Manager in Bing Search/Ads team.
- Caio CamattaSoftware EngineerStripe
Caio is a Software Engineer in Stripe’s Machine Learning Infrastructure team. In the last three years he's helped develop Shepherd, Stripe's next generation ML feature computation platform, with a focus on the online and streaming components, and operational excellence. Outside of work, he’s an avid windsurfer.
- Carlos SantosSenior Backend Engineertb.lx by Daimler Truck
Carlos Alcaide Santos is a software engineer specializing in backend development, data engineering, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. Since 2021, he has been working with Apache Flink at Tb.lx, a Daimler Truck company. Prior to this, he gained valuable experience at Talkdesk and Present Technologies. Carlos completed a specialization in Networking and System Administration in 2013 and earned a bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering with a focus on software engineering in 2018, both from the Coimbra Institute of Engineering. Currently, he is pursuing a master's degree in Informatics Engineering with a specialization in Intelligent Data Analysis at the same institution. Carlos is passionate about leveraging innovative technologies to build scalable, efficient systems and drive data-driven decision-making.
- Cesar FickData EngineerKuehne+Nagel
Cesar has worked in IT for more than 25 years.
From the early days dealing with mainframe programs and VSAM files, evolving to relational databases like Oracle and Sql Server up to the current days using state of the art cloud data solutions like Snowflake and mostly AWS services, data is always in the core of his professional background.
For the past year, he has worked at Kuehne+Nagel as a data architect, helping to build the company's new data mesh.
- Daren WongSoftware EngineerAWS
Daren is an experienced software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he specializes in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With a passion for real-time data streaming, Daren contributes extensively to the Apache Flink open-source community.
As an active contributor, Daren’s work includes:
- Apache Flink AWS Connectors: Creator of the CloudWatch connector and key contributor to the Kinesis, Firehose, and DynamoDB connectors.
- Apache Flink Prometheus Connector: Creator of the Prometheus TableAPI and SQL connector, enhancing monitoring and observability within Flink ecosystems.
- Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator: Contributor to the 1.3.0 release, with notable enhancements in error metadata and new configuration options.
Outside of his work at AWS, Daren is dedicated to fostering the growth of the Apache Flink community and is enthusiastic about sharing his expertise with the broader data community. He looks forward to discussing the power of Apache Flink and its potential for modern data-driven applications. - Derek Troy-WestCEOFactor House
Derek is the CEO and technical visionary behind Factor House, where he leads the development of Kpow, Flex, and Factor Platform. With over 20 years of engineering experience across UBS, e2x, Fortis, and Fidelity, Derek has built enterprise-grade streaming solutions globally. After discovering Apache Kafka in 2012, he spent six years consulting across Australia and New Zealand, building data streaming platforms that would later inspire Kpow's vision: making real-time data infrastructure seamless and accessible for engineers.