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Program committee
Global 2021
About the Program Committee
Our program committee take responsibility for planning and shaping the program of Flink Forward. They make sure to rate talks in different dimensions to create a balanced program including deeply technical talks and high-level use cases. Diversity is also a crucial aspect for the program committee - they strive to improve and support the presence of underrepresented groups at the conference.
Program committee
- Caito ScherrSoftware EngineerVerverica
Caito is a software engineer who loves woodworking, dance, and terrible puns.
- Shriya AroraSenior Data EngineerNetflix
Shriya works on the Data engineering team for Personalization. Which, among other things, delivers recommendations made for each user. The team is responsible for the data that goes into training and scoring of the various machine learning models that power the Netflix homepage. They have been working on moving some of our core datasets from being processed in a once-a-day daily batch ETL to being processed in near-real time using Apache Flink. Before Netflix, she was at Walmart Labs, where she helped build and architect the new generation item-setup, moving from batch processing to stream. They used Storm-Kafka to enable a micro-services architecture that can allow for products to be updated near real-time as opposed to once-a-day update on the legacy framework.
- Austin Cawley-EdwardsSenior Software EngineerFinTech Studios
Austin Cawley-Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer at FinTech Studios, using real-time data to bring clarity to financial news. He frequently works with Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch. He also loves API design, taking part in collaborative communities, and sometimes JavaScript.
- 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.
- Lakshmi RaoSoftware EngineerLyft
Lakshmi is a software engineer on the streaming platform team at Lyft. The team builds and supports the core infrastructure that enables several product teams at Lyft to easily and reliably spin up Flink jobs to perform aggregations on real-time data. Most recently, she has been spending time re-architecting the platform to a Kubernetes based deployment. Prior to Lyft, Lakshmi worked in fin-tech land, building a search and information retrieval platform for Goldman Sachs.
- Zhenzhong XuEngineering ManagerNetflix
Zhenzhong (Z) is an Engineering Manager at Netflix supporting the Stream Processing Platform team. Z is passionate about speed, all the way from racing motorcycles on a track to scaling a team to build fast processing systems that deliver joy to hundreds of millions of Netflix users.
- Krzysztof ZarzyckiCTOGetInData
Krzysztof is an architect, engineer and an entrepreneur passionate about solutions that take advantage of Big Data technologies. Working with distributed systems, analytics and machine learning for over 11 years, previously in companies like Netezza/IBM or Hadapt/Teradata and other startups. Finally, with others like him he found a company Getindata that offers services in building data-driven solutions where he plays the CTO role. But he likes to work full-stack going from nailing the business problem to architecting a solution to engineering it down and to installing, troubleshooting and monitoring. For 6 years he specializes in building scalable real-time analytics solutions.