The Apache Flink® Conference
Speakers
Seattle 2023
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
- Hunter MedneyTechnical lead for Digital GrowthIBM
Industry-awarded senior architect/engineer in customer data platforms and event-driven systems. Hunter currently leads IBM's digital growth platform and is exploring the wonders and power of Apache Flink.
- Basar Hamdi OnatSoftware EngineerDoorDash
Basar Onat is an accomplished software engineer specializing in realtime streaming platforms. Currently at DoorDash, he works as a Software Engineer on the Real-Time Platform team, focusing on the Realtime Metrics Platform. Basar has also contributed significantly as a Software Engineer at Meta, handling large-scale data workloads with the Presto team. Prior to that, he played a vital role in bootstrapping the Realtime Platform at Striim. With his expertise, Basar brings valuable insights to the Flink Forward Conference, sharing his knowledge in building robust realtime streaming platforms.
- Sharon XieFounding Engineer and Product LeadDecodable
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.
- Dan VinakovskyLead Software EngineerSchonfeld
Operations technology software engineer at Schonfeld by day, Olympic Weightlifting competitor by night
- Allison ChengSoftware EngineerDoorDash
Allison Cheng is a software engineer on the realtime platform team at DoorDash. Her team is responsible for providing the data ingestion platform for data users to capture, access and create real time insights. Before DoorDash, Allison was at Amazon on the Listing Management team, building the near realtime high volume data ingestion pipelines for sellers. Outside of work, She enjoys cooking for family and friends. She also started to try beginner hiking trails and biking
- Alexey NovakovSolution ArchitectVerverica
I am a Solution Architect working for last the last 6 years on data solutions and products. At Ververica I am focusing on supporting clients to solve their challenges in adopting data stream processing with Apache Flink. Among my previous project and companies I developed different systems such as Data Lakes, Data Integration and Data Virtualization Layers. In my spare time, I contribute to various open-source projects or start my own for fun. Apart from programming I have some hobbies like astronomy, playing music and gym.
- Erik de NooijEngineering lead Streaming Data AnalyticsING Bank
Seasoned Tech Lead with a background in various industries like retail, telecom, tech, and banking, in various roles like engineering, consultancy, and management. Has worked on Apache Flink within ING since its inception in 2016, helping it grow towards the de facto standard for streaming at ING worldwide. Erik was a speaker at Flink Forward 2023.
- Jark WuStaff Software EngineerAlibaba Cloud
Jark Wu is a committer and PMC member of Apache Flink and the original creator of Flink SQL, Flink CDC, and Fluss. He currently leading the Flink SQL and Fluss team at Alibaba Cloud. His work has long centered on distributed systems, particularly in the areas of big data computing and storage.
- Rashmi ShamsundarSoftware EngineerBlock
Rashmi is a software engineer currently working at CashApp (Block). She has more than 10 years of experience building great products for a wide range of industries. More recently, she is working on the platform teams building and maintaining data platforms. When not working, Rashmi is into Yoga, learning the Violin and loves spending time with her family.
- Jasmin SoltaniSoftware EngineerBloomberg LP
Jasmin Soltani is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where she is focused on building real-time, high-throughput data pipelines. She holds a degree in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. After starting her career in operations, she realized the power of technology and made her transition into tech in 2020. She is passionate about mentorship and a culture of life-long learning. Outside of tech, Jasmin enjoys making ceramics and eating her way around New York City.
- Dong LinStaff Software EngineerAlibaba / Apache Flink & Kafka PMC
Dong Lin is a Staff Software Engineer at Alibaba working on Apache Flink ecosystem projects. He is the architect and primary maintainer of FeatHub and Flink ML. Dong is also a member of Apache Flink and Apache Kafka PMC.
- Ramkrishna VasudevanPrincipal Software EngineerMicrosoft
Managing the streaming team in Azure HDInsight.