Apache Flink® & everything streaming data
Program committee
San Francisco 2022
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
- Timo WaltherPrincipal Software EngineerConfluent
Timo Walther is a Principal Software Engineer at Confluent and a long-time member of Apache Flink’s management committee. He studied Computer Science at TU Berlin and was part of the Database Group there - the origins of Apache Flink. In Flink, he is working on various topics in the Table & SQL ecosystem to make stream processing accessible for everyone.
- Tzu-Li (Gordon) TaiSoftware EngineerVerverica
Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai is an Apache Flink PMC member and software engineer at Ververica. His main contributions in Apache Flink includes work on some of the most widely used Flink connectors (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Elasticsearch). Gordon was a speaker at conferences such as Flink Forward, Strata Data, as well as several Taiwan-based conferences on the Hadoop ecosystem and data engineering in general.
- Calvin CheungEngineering ManagerNetflix
Calvin Cheung is the Engineering Manager for the Stream Processing Engines team at Netflix. His team provides a fully managed platform to build and operate Flink jobs used engineers and data scientists alike. Throughout his career at Twitter, Uber, and Netflix, he has been an operator and builder of large scale data systems. An active committer on Netflix’s very own open source real time data platform — Mantis. Its focus on high availability and low latency is a perfect complement to Flink.
- Ricky SaltzerSenior Data EngineerEpic Games
Ricky is a Senior Data Engineer on the data platform team at Epic Games. His team focuses on building real-time infrastructure to support core projects, such as Fortnite and the recently launched Epic Online Services. Before Epic, Ricky was a Data Engineer at Cloudera for 6 years, and is a committer on the Apache NiFi project.
- Regina ChanSenior EngineerGoldman Sachs
Regina Chan is a Senior Engineer at Goldman Sachs in the Data Architecture team building solutions to service the firm’s growing demand for data. She is one of the original members of the Data Lake team building it from the ground up and has been leading the effort in rebuilding using Flink.
- Enrico CanzonieriTech Lead of Data InfrastructureYelp
Enrico works as a tech lead of the Data Infrastructure at Yelp, designing, building and maintaining data streaming and real-time processing infrastructure. Since 2013 he’s been working on real-time processing systems, designing and scaling Yelp's data pipeline to move and process in real-time hundreds of terabytes of data and tens of billions of messages every day. Enrico loves designing robust software solutions for stream processing that scale and building tools to make application developers’ interaction with the infrastructure as simple as possible. At Yelp, Enrico has led the teams that build and maintain the Kafka and Flink deployments and the overall data pipeline. Enrico has previously spoken about Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and Apache Beam at Flink Forward SF, Berlin Buzzwords, Techsummit.io, ApacheCon and several meetups.
- Nick BurkardSenior Software EngineerDisney Streaming
Nick Burkard is a Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming where he builds real-time, event-driven distributed systems. He is an avid fan of Scala and functional programming; advocating for their use wherever possible. He is also active in open-source, having contributed to the Apache Flink project and created a library for managing infrastructure in AWS as idiomatic Scala code.