Virtual 2020

Marton is a Flink PMC member and one of the first contributors to the streaming API. He has driven big data adoption at around 50 customers as a Senior Solutions Architect at Cloudera during the last four years. He is the manager of the newly formed Streaming Analytics team and focuses on adding Flink to the Cloudera platform.

Stephan Ewen is CTO and co-founder at Ververica where he leads the development of the stream processing platform based on open source Apache Flink. He is also a PMC member and one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Before working on Apache Flink, Stephan worked on in-memory databases, query optimization, and distributed systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Berlin University of Technology.

As Head of Product for Ververica Platform Konstantin is responsible for Ververica's commercial product, an enterprise-ready stream processing platform based on Apache Flink. Previously, he was leading the solutions architecture team and helping our clients as well as the Open Source community to get the most out of Apache Flink and Ververica Platform. Before joining Ververica he worked as a Senior Consultant with TNG Technology Consulting, where he supported their clients mainly in the areas of Distributed Systems and Automation. Konstantin has studied Mathematics and Computer Science at TU Darmstadt specializing in Stochastics and Algorithmics.

Eric was an early employee at Cloudera before he founded Rocana which was acquired by Splunk. Today, he is a Distinguished Engineer at Splunk working on platform services including stream processing. He's the author of "Hadoop Operations" and is involved in a number of open source projects.

Joe Witt is Vice President of Engineering at Cloudera focused on the Cloudera Data Flow (CDF) product. Joe spent 10 years at NSA most of which developing what became Apache NiFi. In 2015 Joe and a team of cofounders left NSA and started Onyara which was acquired by Hortonworks which later merged with Cloudera. Joe is a member of the project management committee for Apache NiFi.

Fakrudeen is an Architect in Digital Experience Cloud with focus and expertise in Big data and ML technologies. Formerly, he was Senior Manager at Yahoo, managing Yahoo front page content ranking and personalization system.

Ahmet Altay is a Senior Software Engineer at Google working on Apache Beam (PMC member) and Cloud Dataflow. Previously he worked at Microsoft on operating systems. He has a master's degree from Stanford University.