Virtual 2020 Program committee
About the Program Committee
Our program committee take responsibility for planning and shaping the program of Flink Forward. They make sure to rate talks in different dimensions to create a balanced program including deeply technical talks and high-level use cases. Diversity is also a crucial aspect for the program committee - they strive to improve and support the presence of underrepresented groups at the conference.
Program committee
- Fabian HueskeCo-founder, Software EngineerVerverica
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 BalassiManager, Streaming AnalyticsCloudera
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 BennettSenior Data EngineerNetflix
Julia Bennett is a member of the data engineering team for personalization at Netflix that delivers recommendations made for each user. The team is responsible for building large scale data processing used in training and scoring of the various machine learning models that power the Netflix UI experience. They have recently been working on moving some of the company’s core datasets from being processed in a once-a-day daily batch ETL to being processed in near real time using Apache Flink. Before joining Netflix, Julia completed her PhD in mathematics from The University of Texas At Austin.
- Sijie GuoFounderStreamNative
Sijie Guo is the founder of StreamNative. StreamNative is an infrastructure startup, focusing on building cloud native event streaming systems around Apache Pulsar. Previously, he was the tech lead for the Messaging Group at Twitter, and worked on push notification infrastructure at Yahoo. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC Member of Apache Pulsar.
- Enrico CanzonieriTech Lead of Data InfrastructureYelp
Enrico works as a tech lead of the Data Infrastructure at Yelp, designing, building and maintaining data streaming and real-time processing infrastructure. Since 2013 he’s been working on real-time processing systems, designing and scaling Yelp's data pipeline to move and process in real-time hundreds of terabytes of data and tens of billions of messages every day. Enrico loves designing robust software solutions for stream processing that scale and building tools to make application developers’ interaction with the infrastructure as simple as possible. At Yelp, Enrico has led the teams that build and maintain the Kafka and Flink deployments and the overall data pipeline. Enrico has previously spoken about Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and Apache Beam at Flink Forward SF, Berlin Buzzwords, Techsummit.io, ApacheCon and several meetups.
- Marta Paes MoreiraDeveloper AdvocateVerverica
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 NienhuisSenior Product ManagerAWS
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) QinStaff Software EngineerAlibaba
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.
- Eric SammerDistinguished EngineerDecodable
Eric has been in the tech industry for over 20 years as an engineer, CTO, and most recently, CEO. Prior to founding Decodable, he held a number of different roles as an early Cloudera employee, and later, was the CTO and co-founder of Rocana which was acquired by Splunk in ‘17. At Splunk, Eric was a VP and Sr Distinguished Engineer responsible for cloud platform services. Eric is the author of Hadoop Operations (O’Reilly).
- Caito ScherrSoftware EngineerVerverica
Caito is a software engineer who loves woodworking, dance, and terrible puns.
- Sherin ThomasSoftware EngineerLyft
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.