Global 2021

Andrey Falko has been in the Streaming space for over 5 years. Most recently he oversaw the Apache Flink platform at Stripe. Prior to that, he built and scaled Apache Kafka for Lyft's Data Platform. At Salesforce, Andrey built a CI/CD system to support Stream and Batch systems. While there he also researched Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka performance and reliability. Outside of the Streaming space, Andrey built an IaaS system, launched a distributed tracing system with Apache Zipkin, and wrote features for the Salesforce platform. Andrey has recently returned for a second tour at Salesforce.

Aniket Mokashi is an Engineering Manager on Stream Processing team at Facebook. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the development of large scale data processing frameworks and platforms. Prior to Facebook, he has worked on data platform teams at Youtube, Twitter and Netflix. He is also a committer and PMC member on Apache Parquet and Apache Pig projects. Aniket holds a Master's degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

Hands-on Engineering Manager passionate about Real-Time Streaming Platforms. Loves data - bigger the better. Product driven. Have a Ph.D. in Multimedia Database and Retrievals. Loves reading and long walks