Speakers

A data scientist and TensorFlow addict, Robert has a passion for helping developers quickly learn what they need to be productive. He's used TensorFlow since the very early days and is excited about how it's evolving quickly to become even better than it already is. Before moving to data science Robert led software engineering teams for both large and small companies, always focusing on clean, elegant solutions to well-defined needs. In his spare time Robert sails, surfs occasionally, and raises a family.

Pala is an engineer in Data Platform at Airbnb, working on projects revolving around stream processing, analytics engines and storage. Prior to that he was a systems engineer at Trooly (acquired by Airbnb), working on a web crawl system (storage and indexing), and engineer at RocketFuel working on data and ML infrastructure. Before that he worked as an engineer in Microsoft SQL Server team on database manageability for SQL Azure and SQL Server. He holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Sijie Guo is the PMC Chair of Apache BookKeeper and the PMC member of Apache Pulsar. He worked at Twitter before and led the messaging team. Prior to Twitter, he worked on Yahoo! Push notification infrastructure.

Fangjin is a co-author of the open source Druid project and a co-founder of Imply, a San Francisco based technology company. Fangjin previously held senior engineering positions at Metamarkets and Cisco. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Aljoscha Krettek is a PMC member at Apache Flink and co-founder and software engineer at 'Ververica':https://www.ververica.com/. He studied Computer Science at TU Berlin, he has worked at IBM Germany and at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose. In Flink, Aljoscha is mainly working on the Streaming API. The most recent additions to the windowing and state APIs where designed and implemented by him. Aljoscha has spoken at Hadoop Summit, Strata, Flink Forward and several meetups about stream processing and Apache Flink before.

Rong Rong is a senior software engineer at Uber’s streaming processing team. He worked on Uber’s SQL-based stream analytics engine AthenaX which is currently powering over 1000+ production real-time data analytics and ML pipelines. Previously Rong held a software and machine learning engineer position in Qualcomm computer vision team.

Bowen is a senior software engineer at Alibaba, working on new initiatives of Flink and Alibaba’s internal fork known as Blink. Before joining Alibaba, he led the development of stream processing platform based on Flink at OfferUp, and worked on infrastructure of data analytics platform at Tableau.

Ramesh Shanmugam is a Senior Data Platform Engineer at Branch Metrics. At Branch, currently, he is building streaming and batch pipelines at a huge scale using Apache Flink, Spark, and Airflow. He has been creating distributed applications for more than 15 years. Passionate about building data-intensive applications.

Xiaowei Jiang is a Senior Director at Alibaba. He leads the StreamCompute Platform for AliCloud. The platform provides the real time data processing both internally and externally. Previously, he worked as Tech Lead at Facebook and Principal Engineer at Microsoft SQL Server.

Kostas Tzoumas is a co-founder and CEO of Ververica, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Flink. Kostas is PMC member of Apache Flink and earned a PhD in Computer Science from Aalborg University with postdoctoral experience at TU Berlin. He is an author of a number of technical papers and blog articles on stream processing and other data science topics.

Jon has been working with Flink and dAP inside The Trade Desk (TTD) since he met dA at this conference exactly one year ago. Prior to the TTD's Data Pipeline Team, Jon built custom Big Data pipelines and time-series analytic engines inside Microsoft's Shared Data group and Skype's Big Data team.

Robert Metzger is a PMC member of the Apache Flink project and a co-founder and an engineering lead at Ververica (former data Artisans). He is the author of many Flink components including the Kafka and YARN connectors. Robert studied Computer Science at TU Berlin and worked at IBM Germany and at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the Hadoop Summit, ApacheCon and meetups around the world.

Pablo is a Software Engineer from Mexico City. He lives in Seattle and works on Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow. He's worked all across the Beam stack, mainly in the Python and Java SDKs. Before working at Google, he earned a Master's degree at Seoul National University, doing computational linguistics research. His favorite activities are traveling and drinking tea with the locals.

Seth Wiesman is a Senior Solutions Architect at Ververica, consulting clients to maximise the benefits of real-time data processing for their business. He supports customers in the areas of application design, system integration and performance tuning. Prior to joining Ververica, he was a Data Engineer on the reporting team at MediaMath and has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Missouri.

Srikanth Satya is Vice President of Engineering for Unstructured Data Storage, responsible for Object Storage product (ECS) and is also building a modern data analytics product (code named Nautilus) on top of Pravega (www.pravega.io). Pravega re-imagines storage for the stream processing world, establishing stream as a fundamental storage primitive and was built by his team and recently open sourced. Nautilus hopes to challenge the current status quo in the industry to make batch and stream processing on big data accessible for enterprise customers. He joined EMC in 2015. Before joining EMC, Srikanth had worked on leading pioneering large-scale public cloud services in Amazon and Microsoft.