San Francisco

Ethan Guo is a Software Engineer at Onehouse, working on building and optimizing the next generation of Lakehouse. He's an Apache Hudi committer, passionate about streaming processing and Lakehouse architecture. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Uber, building mobile observability and data pipelines for monitoring Uber's mobile network performance in production on a global scale.

Kunal Umrigar is an Engineering Leader with more than 14 years of experience designing big data platforms and distributed systems. He is a Sr. Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes, leads the alerts team to build stream processing pipelines that identify network anomalies in real-time. Prior to this, Kunal worked as Sr. Director, Engineering at PubMatic to build a big data platform that processed petabytes of data to power and optimize ad serving algorithms. He is a data and ML enthusiast always thrilled to solve tough problems, build a high-performance team and deliver quality software.

Balint Kurnasz is a Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco ThousandEyes; he is the lead architect of ThousandEyes' real-time alerting platform built using Flink. He has 12 years of experience as a Java and 5 years as a Kotlin software engineer with a primary focus on distributed systems development. In his spare time he enjoys scubadiving and flying FPV racing drones.

Aansh is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon working on making Alexa smarter through enabling machine learning at scale.

Jeff Chao is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead for the Change Data Capture infrastructure at Stripe. He is also a committer for the Debezium Vitess Connector. Previously, Jeff worked on streaming systems at Netflix and was a committer to Mantis, and operated Kafka as a service at Heroku.

Sharon is a founding engineer at Decodable. Currently she leads product management and development. She has over six years of experience in building and operating streaming data platforms, with extensive expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Debezium. Before joining Decodable, she served as the technical lead for the real-time data platform at Splunk, where her focus was on the streaming query language and developer SDKs.

Ron is a New Relic Fellow and Lead Architect for the Observability team at New Relic. In his almost 8 years at New Relic, he has overseen exponential growth in the amount of data New Relic processes on behalf of our customers. Prior to New Relic, Ron was a Fellow of the Technical Staff at Motorola where he was a key contributor and leader in the development of digital cellular technology through 4G. He is named as an inventor on over 35 issued patents.

Patrick Lucas is a Senior Data Engineer at Ververica working on the team developing Ververica Platform. Previously, he worked on and led various infrastructure teams at Yelp in San Francisco, and prior to that worked at the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Patrick studied Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.