Ethan Guo
Data Engineer
Onehouse
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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
Tech Leadership
ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)
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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 platfom 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
ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)
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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 Shah
Tech Leadership
Amazon
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Aansh is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon working on making Alexa smarter through enabling machine learning at scale.
Jeff Chao
Tech Leadership
Stripe
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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 Xie
Tech Leadership
Decodable
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Sharon has been building and maintaining data platforms for over 5 years. She is a founding engineer at Decodable and leads the core platform team. Before Decodable, Sharon worked at Splunk on another real-time data platform - Data Stream Processor. Before that she spent most of her time learning "new" UI libraries every year.
Ron Crocker
Tech Leadership
New Relic
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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
Tech Leadership
Atomic Wire
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Patrick Lucas is a co-founder of Atomic Wire, focusing on bringing Stream Processing to financial services. Previously, he was Senior Data Engineer at Ververica, developing Ververica Platform, and Software Engineer and Engineering Manager in infrastructure and operations at Yelp.
Yupeng Fu
Tech Leadership
Uber
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Yupeng is a Principal Engineer at Uber and he leads Uber's Real-time Platform and Infrastructure. including multiple mission-critical services powered by several open-source technologies like Kafka/Flink/Pinot.
Kyle Weller
Tech Leadership
Onehouse
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Kyle Weller has been on the front lines of the Lakehouse architecture for the last 3 years as a Product lead for Azure Databricks and now Head of Product at Onehouse.ai. Kyle has seen how hard it is for data engineers to build DIY data lakes so he is now building a managed Lakehouse foundation on top of Apache Hudi at Onehouse. Kyle has 9 yrs experience building data products and data engineering platforms across global cloud services like Azure Databricks, Azure ML, Cortana, Bing, and Office. Outside of work Kyle volunteers as an entrepreneurship coach for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Xiang Zhang
Operations Engineer
Stripe, StarTree
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Xiang is currently a software engineer on the streaming team at Stripe, working on creating a stream compute platform. Prior to Stripe, Xiang worked at LinkedIn, Google and AWS on various types of systems, including critical infrastructures for LinkedIn's profile and feed experiences, transactional systems for Google's supply chain organization, and network monitoring infrastructure for EC2 networking at AWS.
Gang Ye
Developer Relations
Apple
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Gang works at Apple AI/ML Data infrastructure team. She focuses on building real time data ingestion service.
Mason Chen
Operations Engineer
Apple
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Mason is currently a Software Engineer in Apple’s MLPT Stream Processing Platform. For the past few years, he has worked on scaling and growing Flink for various Apple use cases and for many event driven applications at Playstation. Mason grew up in the Bay Area and attended UC Berkeley where he studied computer science, statistics, and mathematics.
Timo Walther
Tech Leadership
Immerok
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Timo Walther is a long-term committer and PMC member of the Apache Flink project. He studied Computer Science at TU Berlin. Alongside his studies, he participated in the Database Systems and Information Management Group there and worked at IBM Germany. Timo worked as a software engineer and lead of the SQL team at Ververica. In Flink, he is working on various topics in the Table & SQL ecosystem.
Jeff Niemann
Data Engineer
Neuro-Id
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Jeff Niemann has worked with web behavior data collection and processing systems for the last four years. He has worked with many different technologies to solve behavioral data collection, transformation, analysis, and storage problems at large scale.
Randy Hanak
Neuro-Id
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Principal software engineer who enjoys designing solutions to complicated problems especially related to distributed systems, data engineering, and backends. Particularly in domains such as security, fraud, and analytics.
Yuan Mei
Tech Leadership
Alibaba
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Yuan Mei is an Apache Flink PMC member and leads the Flink Storage team at Alibaba. She also acts as an architect of Flink Engine. Before joining Alibaba, she was a research scientist at Facebook. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL.
Andreas Hailu
Data Engineer
Goldman Sachs
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Andreas is a Vice President Software Engineer in Data Lake Engineering within Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs.
Caito Scherr
Developer Relations
Ververica
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Caito is a developer advocate for the stream processing engine, Apache Flink. Previously she was a software engineer working with data analytics. When she's not geeking out about tech, she does woodworking/construction, dance & running.
Hojjat Jafarpour
C-Level & VP Management
DeltaStream
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Hojjat is the founder and CEO of DeltaStream, a serverless database to manage, secure and process all your streams on cloud. Before starting DeltaStream, he was at Confluent where he created ksqlDB, a database purpose-built for stream processing applications from Confluent. Prior to Confluent, he worked at NEC Labs, Informatica, Quantcast and Tidemark on various big data management projects. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Irvine, where he worked on scalable stream processing and publish/subscribe systems.
Ajay Vyasapeetam
Other
Bloomberg
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Ajay is a Team Lead in the Derivatives Data organization at Bloomberg. He is currently working on building low latency and high throughput market data pipelines.
Scott Sandre
Other
Databricks
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Software Engineer at Databricks working on Delta Lake.
James Busche
Developer Relations
IBM
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James Busche is an IBM Developer focused on the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, working to get it accepted as mainstream as the go-to solution for production Flink deployments on Kubernetes. Previously, James has been a DevOps Cloud engineer for IBM Watson and it's worldwide Kubernetes deployments.
Ted Chang
DevOps
IBM
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Ted is software engineer in the IBM Cognitive Open Technologies focusing on software development and performance. He has been contributing to Tensorflow and built community supported packages on the PPC64LE platform. Lately, he has been focusing on deep learning technology developing applications using Tensorflow.js and Node.js.
Weiqing Yang
Other
LinkedIn
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Weiqing has been working in big data computation frameworks since 2015. She has contributed to Apache Spark/HBase/Hadoop/Samza. She is currently a software engineer in Streaming Infra team at LinkedIn, working on Flink, Samza, K8s, etc. Before that, she worked in Spark team at Hortonworks. Weiqing enjoys speaking at conferences. She presented in Spark Summit 2017, HBaseCon 2017, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, and ApacheCon 2020.
Denny Lee
Developer Relations
Databricks
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Denny Lee is a Developer Advocate at Databricks. He is a hands-on distributed systems and data sciences engineer with extensive experience developing internet-scale infrastructure, data platforms, and predictive analytics systems for both on-premise and cloud environments. He also has a Masters of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Sciences University and has architected and implemented powerful data solutions for enterprise Healthcare customers. His current technical focuses include Distributed Systems, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Genomics.
Ingo Bürk
Other
Immerok
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Ingo is a software engineer from Munich and a committer for Apache Flink where he contributed to the Table API / SQL and others.
David Moravek
Tech Leadership
Stealth Startup
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David has spent most of the last decade working on petabyte-scale data pipelines, messing with database internals and leading some amazing engineering teams. His main focus is with the distributed coordination layer of Apache Flink and bringing Apache Flink cloud native. David was a Lead Software Engineer at Ververica and is an Apache Beam and Apache Flink committer.
Jun Qin
Tech Leadership
Ververica
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Jun Qin is a Solutions Architect at Ververica. Previously, he worked as a Technical Account Manager in MapR and as a senior system support programmer/analyst in Amadeus. He has a Ph.D. in computer science and specializes in distributed computing and system architecture.
Xintong Song
Data Engineer
Alibaba
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Xintong is an Apache Flink Committer and PMC Member, and a Senior Engineer at Alibaba. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Peking University. His work mainly focuses on Flink's runtime improvements and maintenance.
Steffen Hausmann
Tech Leadership
Amazon Web Services
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Steffen Hausmann is a Principal Streaming Architect at AWS. He works with customers around the globe to design and build streaming architectures so that they can get value from analyzing their streaming data. He holds a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Munich and in his free time, he tries to lure his daughters into tech with cute stickers he collects at conferences.
David Anderson
Developer Relations
Stealth Startup
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David is a Flink committer and trainer who has helped dozens of companies learn how to work with Flink. Before discovering Flink in 2016, he worked as a data engineer designing and building data pipelines for companies across Europe.
Danny Cranmer
DevOps
Amazon Web Services
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I am a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon AWS working on the Kinesis Data Analytics platform. We provide a fully managed platform for Apache Flink jobs. I also enjoy contributing to open source projects and am an Apache Flink Committer.
Pratyush Sharma
Operations Engineer
Stripe
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Software Engineer at Stripe working on the stream compute platform
Madhuri Jain
Data Engineer
Bloomberg
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Madhuri Jain is a Software Developer in the ‘Derivatives Data’ team at Bloomberg. The team is responsible for building the infrastructure to ingest and publish Real-time Derivatives Market Data. In her free time, Madhuri enjoys listening to music and reading.
Robert Metzger
Other
Decodable
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Robert Metzger is a committer and PMC member at Apache Flink. Recently, he has focused on improving the deployment and operation experience of Flink, with a focus on autoscaling and generally working towards cloud native Flink.
Robert Metzger is currently a Staff Engineer at decodable. He previously co-founded and successfully exited data Artisans (now Ververica), the company originally creating and commercializing Flink. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the QCon, ApacheCon and meetups around the world.
Piotr Nowojski
Tech Leadership
Immerok
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Long time Apache Flink committer and PMC Member. Working mostly to make the Flink's runtime and checkpointing better!
Evan Anderson
Tech Leadership
VMware
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Founder of Knative serverless project. Currently at VMware, previously at Google, recovering SRE.
Steven Wu
Other
Apple
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Steven Wu is a software engineer at Apple. He is working on the stream processing infrastructure. Previously he worked at Netflix and helped build the real-time data infrastructure there. He is passionate about building scalable distributed systems and empowering people with data.
Christian Tzolov
Tech Leadership
VMware
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Staff Software Engineer at VMware, Spring Team Member; Apache Software Foundation Committer / PMC Member.
Over a decade experience in building distributed, data-intensive systems.
Sonam Mandal
Other
LinkedIn
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I've been working on building a managed stream processing platform to bring Flink to LinkedIn. Before this I was working on the data pipelines side which includes Brooklin Mirror Maker (for all Kafka mirroring at Linkedin), change capture events, etc. Prior to LinkedIn I worked at Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE) on the data plane team working with the cache and fingerprint indexes.
Xiaoman Dong
Operations Engineer
StarTree
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Xiaoman Dong has devoted his past 10+ years working in the streaming analytics domain, mostly focusing on data infrastructure, scalable systems, and fast queries over large scale dataset, mostly based on open source solutions like Kafka, Pinot.
Nico Kruber
Tech Leadership
Immerok
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Nico Kruber is an Apache Flink committer who worked as the Head of Solutions Architecture at Ververica, helping clients and the open-source community get the most out of Apache Flink. For this, Nico can leverage his in-depth knowledge of Flink, related technologies, and the expertise of his colleagues. Nico holds a PhD in computer science from his research on parallel and distributed systems at the Zuse Institute Berlin, where he developed a transactional key-value store.
Yuriy Bondaruk
Tech Leadership
Uber
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Yuriy Bondaruk is a Staff Engineer at Uber and a tech lead of the ads platform development. Primarily focuses on core components of the ad delivery flow such as auctioning, bidding, and budget pacing.
Jingsong Li
Data Engineer
Alibaba
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Jingsong is a committer of Apache Flink and Apache Beam, he is a senior engineer at Alibaba.
Since 2014, he has focused on the research and development of streaming computing within Alibaba.
Since 2017, he has focused on the development of Alibaba Blink, and also contributed Apache Flink community actively.
Recently, he mainly focuses on unifying streaming and batch using Apache Flink in data warehouse architecture.
Rainie Li
Pinterest
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Rainie Li is a software engineer at the Stream processing platform team at Pinterest. She worked at Microsoft Azure and AWS Rekognition before she joined Pinterest. Rainie got her master degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from Duke University.
Kanchi Masalia
Pinterest
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Kanchi Masalia is a software engineer at the Stream processing platform team at Pinterest. She has also worked at Credit Suisse and contributed to Delta One Trading Desk. Kanchi got her master degree in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Karl Friedrich
Ververica
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Karl has architected, designed, developed and managed high performance scalable commercial software systems for multinational enterprises as well as growth companies, for 10+ years. He is passionate about large scale distributed systems, big data, low latency (real time) systems, and artificial intelligence, just to name a few.
Olena Babenko
Aiven OY
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Olena is a senior software engineer and a data engineer. Born in Ukraine, but now lives in Finland. For most of her career, she has worked for big companies such as Yandex and Zalando. Therefore, she understands that the problem of "too much data" does exist. This is why she has been a big fan of Kafka and Flink streaming for almost 4 years now. She believes that sharing knowledge is a win-win for both the audience and the speaker.
Sijie Guo
StreamNative
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Sijie’s journey with Apache Pulsar began at Yahoo! where he was part of the team working to develop a global messaging platform for the company. He then went to Twitter, where he led the messaging infrastructure group and co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. In 2017, he co-founded Streamlio, which was acquired by Splunk, and in 2019 he founded StreamNative. He is one of the original creators of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, and remains VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC Member of Apache Pulsar. Sijie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Neng Lu
StreamNative
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Neng Lu has rich experience in stream computing technologies. He is currently leading StreamNative's real-time computing product by integrating Apache Pulsar with big data ecosystems on top of Kubernetes. He is also an active Apache Pulsar contributor for Pulsar Function. Prior to StreamNative, Neng worked at Twitter focusing on the development of real-time computing engine -- Apache Incubator Heron. He is also an Apache Incubator Heron Committer and PPMC member. Neng lives in San Francisco, California.
Hong Teoh
Amazon Web Services
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Hong is a Software Development Engineer at AWS. He currently works on Kinesis Data Analytics, the managed Flink offering at AWS, where he is part of the team that keeps thousands of Flink streaming jobs running around the clock. He is from Malaysia, and always happy to strike up a conversation about anything Malaysian!
Usamah Jassat
Amazon Web Services
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Usamah is a Software Development Engineer at AWS on the Kinesis Data Analytics team where he works with his team to provide customers a managed Flink offering. He Graduated with a Masters in Computer and science and in his spare time likes to run and play football.
Yixing Zhang
LinkedIn
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Yixing is a software engineer at LinkedIn working on the streaming infra team. He has experience on Apache Samza, Samza runner for Apache Beam and building the control plane for stream processing jobs.
David Ponessa
Booking.com
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David Ponessa is a Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com in the Security Platform Services team. He has been working in building a Security Platform leveraging technologies such as Kafka, Flink and Elasticsearch for the last 4 years, with more focus on design and problem solving around the topics of scalability and reliability.
Pedro Ceriotti
Booking.com
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Pedro Ceriotti is a Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com in the Security Platform Services team. He has been involved in adapting and implementing third-party solutions, such as Ververica, in the Booking.com environment.
Thomas Weise
Apple
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Thomas is Software Engineer, Streaming Platform Infrastructure at Apple, working with Apache Flink. Earlier he has been at a number of other technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including DataTorrent, where he was a Co-Founder of the Apex project. Thomas is committer and PMC member for Apache Flink and Apache Beam and has contributed to several more of the ASF ecosystem projects.
Johannes Moser
Immerok
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Johannes Moser (Joe) studied at TU Wien and even made it through formal methods in computer science. He has been leading engineering teams all of his career with a good tradition of being the least technical person in the engineering department. Recently he has been working with big data technologies building CrateDB - a distributed SQL database - and Apache Flink. Now he is up to something new in the data stream processing space.
Yangqing Jia
Alibaba
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Yangqing Jia is currently serving as VP of Alibaba, focusing on building cloud-based big data and AI platforms for both public and private cloud applications. He led the effort of building data lakehouse, stream computing, and AI Platform services, one of the fastest-growing products on Alibaba Cloud. Before Alibaba, he had engineering leadership roles at Facebook and Google. He held a PhD degree from UC Berkeley.
Jing Ge
Ververica
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Jing Ge is currently leading engineering teams at Ververica that develop everything about Apache Flink and multi-cloud enterprise data platform. Prior to that, he worked at Ant Group and eBay as Staff Engineer and Sr. Engineering Manager and leading full data stack, from data infra, data platform, data modelling, to customer facing data driven product.
Alex Fedulov
Ververica
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Alexander currently works as a Software Engineer at Ververica. His previous experience included working as a Solutions Architect at Ververica as well as in a variety of engineering roles; building event-driven and data-intensive applications.
Matthias Pohl
Ververica
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Matthias Pohl is a Software Engineer at Ververica living and working in Berlin, Germany. He has been with the company for two years. His main focus lies on topics around high availability and deployment. Matthias is an Apache Flink Committer.
