Program committee

Fabian is a committer and PMC member of the Apache Flink® project and has been contributing to Flink since its earliest days. Fabian is a co-founder of Ververica, a Berlin-based startup devoted to fostering Flink, where he works as a software engineer and contributes to Apache Flink®. He holds a PhD in computer science from TU Berlin and is currently writing a book about “Stream Processing with Apache Flink®”.

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.

Julia Bennett is a data engineer at Netflix, where she works on the personalization team that creates recommendations for each member. The team is responsible for the data used to train and score the various machine learning models that power Netflix personalization, using Flink to deliver some of the company's core datasets in near real-time at massive scale. Before joining Netflix, Julia completed her PhD in mathematics from The University of Texas At Austin.

Sijie Guo is the co-founder and CEO of StreamNative, which provides a cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar. Sijie has worked on messaging and streaming data technologies for more than a decade. Prior to StreamNative, Sijie cofounded Streamlio, a company focused on real-time solutions. At Twitter, Sijie was the tech lead for the messaging infrastructure group, where he co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. Prior to that, he worked on the push notification infrastructure at Yahoo!, where he was one of the original developers of BookKeeper and Pulsar. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC member of Apache Pulsar.

Enrico works as a Tech Lead of the Data Infrastructure at Yelp. He’s been working on real-time processing systems since 2013. Enrico loves designing reliable large scale software solutions for stream processing that are provided as a self-serve platform to application developers. At Yelp, Enrico has led the teams that build and maintain the Kafka and Flink deployments that power the Data Pipeline, moving and processing in real-time hundreds of terabytes of data and tens of billions of messages every day. Enrico frequently speaks at conferences and meetups about Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and Apache Beam.

Marta is a Developer Advocate at Ververica (formerly data Artisans) and a contributor to Apache Flink. After finding her mojo in open source, she is committed to harnessing the power of cross-project collaboration and making sense of Data Engineering through the eyes of those using its by-products. Marta holds a Master’s in Biomedical Engineering, where she developed a particular taste for multi-dimensional data visualization, and previously worked as a Data Warehouse Engineer at Zalando, Unit4 and Accenture.

Ryan Nienhuis is a technical product manager who helps customers use the technology to deliver business value. He has created and managed cloud services products focused on analytics. Ryan has worked on the Amazon Kinesis team at AWS for the past five years, where he defines products that make it easier for customers to work with real-time, streaming data in the cloud. Previously, Ryan worked at Deloitte Consulting, helping customers in banking and insurance solve their data architecture and real-time processing problems. Ryan holds a BE from Virginia Tech.

 Jiangjie (Becket) is a software engineer at Alibaba where he mostly focuses on developing Flink and its ecosystem. Prior to Alibaba, Becket worked at LinkedIn to build streams infrastructures around Apache Kafka. Becket is a PMC member of Apache Flink and Apache Kafka.

Sherin is a Software Engineer at Lyft. In her career spanning 8 years, she has worked on most parts of the tech stack, but enjoys the challenges in Data Science and Machine Learning the most. Most recently she has been focussed on building products that would facilitate advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning through Streaming.

She is passionate about getting more people, especially women, interested in the field of data and has been trying her best to share her work with the community through tech talks and panel discussions. Most recently she gave a talk about Flink Streaming, at Connect 2019(a Women Who Code event) in San Francisco.

In her free time she loves to read and paint. She is also the president of the Russian Hill book club based in San Francisco and loves to organize events for her local library.