Apache Flink® & everything streaming data
Speakers
Berlin 2024
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
- Zhenqiu HuangSoftware EngineeerApple
Zhenqiu Huang has been in Apache Flink Community for many years. He has been building Streaming Platform in Uber Technology and Apple Inc for last several years. Recently, he worked with Openlineage community on building data Lineage for Apache Flink applications.
- Mike GualtieriVP, Principal AnalystForrester
Mike's research focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver applications that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. He advises business and technology leaders around the world on the intersection of business strategy, AI, and digital transformation.
Mike has authored more than 130 research reports and is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire Forrester clients to make great business and technology decisions.
He is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker at industry, corporate, and technology events for his audience-designed, insightful, and energetic speeches.
Mike provides technology vendors with actionable advisory sessions on technology buying trends, strategy advice, messaging, product roadmaps, and buyer personas for the areas he directly covers. He also offers “what-if” investment advisory for clients who wish to invest in or launch new products in the markets he covers. - Yang YangSr Staff Software EngineerUber
Yang is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Uber, and she leads Uber's Streaming Data (Kafka) and Flink team. She focuses on building a highly scalable and reliable real-time data system at scale for thousands of engineers and data scientists at Uber.
- Lu NiuSr Staff Software EngineerPinterest
Lu Niu is the founding member and current Tech Lead of the Streaming Data Processing team at Pinterest. Prior to joining Pinterest, he played a pivotal role in building Presto as a Service at Uber. Lu is passionate about big data and distributed systems, and has contributed to several prominent projects including Flink, Presto, and Velox
- Ejas KhanSenior Technical LeadMercedes-Benz
Senior technical lead with 8 years of experience in distributed system design and development.
- Subham RakshitStreaming Solution ArchitectAWS
Subham Rakshit is a Streaming Solutions Architect for Analytics at AWS based in the UK. He works with customers to design and build streaming architectures so that they can get value from analysing their streaming data. His two little daughters keep her occupied most of the time outside work and loves solving jigsaw puzzles with them.
- Stephan EwenCTOVerverica
Stephan Ewen is CTO and co-founder at Ververica where he leads the development of the stream processing platform based on open source Apache Flink. He is also a PMC member and one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Before working on Apache Flink, Stephan worked on in-memory databases, query optimization, and distributed systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Berlin University of Technology.
- Pawel LeszczynskiOpenlineage contributorAstronomer
Data practitioner with decade long experience, holding PhD in distributed databases. Currently fully involved in Openlineage - an open platform for collection and analysis of data lineage with special focus on automatic lineage extraction.
- Yuan MeiAlibabaDirector of Engineering
Dr. Yuan Mei is a PMC member of the Apache Flink project focusing on the State and Runtime stack. She is the Director of Engineering at Alibaba and leads the Flink storage engine team. She is also the architect of Flink Engine. Before joining Alibaba, Dr. Mei was a research scientist at Facebook, leading and developing various streaming systems. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL.
- Xintong SongStaff Software EngineerAlibaba Cloud
Xintong is an Apache Flink PMC member. He is also a Staff Software Engineer and leads the Flink Java Engine Team at Alibaba. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Peking University.
- Xingcan CuiSoftware EngineerPromoted.ai
Xingcan Cui is a committer for Apache Flink. He currently works as a software engineer at Promoted.ai, leading the development and management of the data platform and pipelines. With over a decade of experience specializing in backend development, data management, and data infrastructure, he is interested in database theories and distributed systems, particularly distributed stream processing.
- Tucker HarveySoftware EngineerPinterest
Tucker Harvey graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2022. He has worked on the Streaming Processing Platform team at Pinterest for the past two years, where he develops Flink as a Service to support various streaming and, more recently, Flink Batch use cases within the company. Previously, he interned at Pinterest on both the Batch Processing Platform team and the Query Platform team, gaining valuable experience in large-scale data processing and data query systems.