Apache Flink® & everything streaming data
Speakers
Global 2021
About the speakers
Meet the experts from global companies like Apple, Pinterest, Splunk, Netflix, Shopify, 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
- Alexander FedulovVerverica
Alexander currently works as a Solutions Architect at Ververica. His previous experience includes working in a variety of engineering roles building event-driven and data-intensive applications.
- Andrew NguonlyNetflix
Developer for Netflix's Real Time Data Infrastructure team.
- Andrey FalkoTech ArchitectSalesforce
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.
- Arvid HeiseVerverica
Arvid has been working on Flink for 2 years, mostly on fault tolerance. Before that, he worked as a consultant data engineer in companies, such as Flixbus or Bayer.
- Brent DavisSplunk
Brent Davis has 20+ years of hands-on experience in end-to-end performance, scalability, reliability, modeling, and infrastructure work. He has worked extensively in cloud-scale applications over the last several years. Brent is passionate about solving difficult performance problems at the extremes of scale, and works across Splunk products with deep technical enthusiasm. Outside of work, you can find him, literally outside, hiking in the mountains of Northern Colorado.
- David AndersonSoftware Practice LeadConfluent
David Anderson is an Apache Flink Committer and a Software Practice Lead in the DevRel group at Confluent. Since discovering Apache Flink in 2016, he has helped countless companies get started with stream processing. Previously, he was a consulting data engineer, designing and building data pipelines for clients with a diverse set of use cases, including search engines, machine learning, and business analytics.
- Dawid WysakowiczSoftware EngineerVerverica
Dawid Wysakowicz is a Flink committer, currently working as a Software Engineer at Ververica. Recently his main area of interest is detecting patterns in streams of data with Flink Complex Event Processing library. Previously worked at GetInData, where he’s been implementing real-time streaming solutions based on Apache Flink. His journey with highly distributed and scalable solutions started in 2015 while writing a Master Thesis on Distributed Genomic Datawarehouse.
- Dian FuAlibaba
Dian Fu is a committer and PMC member of the Apache Flink project. He is currently a software engineer at Alibaba where he mainly focuses on PyFlink. Before that, he was a software engineer at Intel working on Hadoop.
- Divye KapoorSenior Staff Software EngineerPinterest Inc
Divye came to the SF Bay Area 10 years ago, joining Google and delivering Tweet results on the Search Results Page. At LinkedIn he delivered Comment Relevance on LinkedIn's Feed. These days, he's working on Pinterest's Stream Processing Platform (Xenon) as the founder and tech lead for Near Realtime Galaxy (NRTG) platform.
- Dylan MeissnerDeveloperNordstrom
Dylan is an engineer supporting Nordstrom's streaming platform. When he's not automating things he enjoys reading, drawing, and traveling, in that order.
- Fanshu JiangSoftware EngineerPinterest
Fanshu is a software engineer from Pinterest specialized in stream processing platform and tooling that enables easy and fast adoption of Flink.
- Felix GessertBaqend
Felix Gessert is the CEO and co-founder of Baqend. During his PhD studies at the University of Hamburg, he developed the core caching technology Baqend's product Speed Kit. Felix is passionate about making the Web faster by turning academic research into real-world solutions.