San Francisco 2022

Speakers

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.

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.

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.

Scott Sandre Other Databricks

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Software Engineer at Databricks working on Delta Lake.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.