Virtual 2020 Speakers
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
- Abhay AminNetflix
Abhay Amin is a senior software engineer at Netflix working for Consolidated Logging team. At Netflix, he focuses on building and scaling real time & batch metrics platforms using spark, flink and kafka. Prior to Netflix, he has similar experience of building data products for e-commerece and finance.
- Ahmet AltaySoftware EngineerGoogle
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.
- Andrew TorsonPrincipal Data EngineerSalesforce
Andrew Torson is a Principal Data Engineer with Salesforce. His current work is focused on real-time ML based anomaly detection and application performance monitoring for the Salesforce cloud software. Before joining Salesforce, he was a data engineering lead working on the Smart Pricing platform in the Walmart Labs, generating real-time algorithmic price decisions for the global Walmart e-commerce catalog. Andrew is a Scala enthusiast and an active Flink developer with a long industry track-record. He holds a PhD degree in Operations Management from the New York University and M.Sci in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
- Ankit JhalariaGodaddy
Ever since I was a kid, I was very passionate about computers. When I was in grade IV, I joined a hardware institute in India to build my own PC. Back then, I would use that hand-built PC with a 486 processor to play games like Dave. My hardware guru introduced me to my first programming language "Visual Basic". I build a very basic application for my dad that would help him keep track of inventory at his tire shop. After pursing my masters in computer science at USC and interning at CallFire - A VOIP company and Mindjolt - A gaming company, I started working at Yahoo as a Software Engineer in the Ads and Data Platform team. I learned a lot about building applications at scale and got introduced to Hadoop and the magic of Map Reduce at Yahoo about a decade ago. After 5 years at Yahoo, I joined a 30 person startup called AtScale to help build a BI platform that can make it easy for customer to query terabytes of data really fast. For the last couple of years, I have been with Godaddy and we are building our streaming data platform using beam and flink to make data available to our downstream customers in a low latency fashion. I am an Apache Beam contributor and love spending time with my son and wife.
- Austin Cawley-EdwardsSenior Software EngineerFinTech Studios
Austin Cawley-Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer at FinTech Studios, using real-time data to bring clarity to financial news. He frequently works with Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch. He also loves API design, taking part in collaborative communities, and sometimes JavaScript.
- Becket QinPrincipal Staff Software EngineerLinkedIn
Becket is a PMC member of Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. He is interested in stream and batch unification of computing engines and storage systems. Becket currently works at LinkedIn streams infra team on Apache Flink. Prior to that, he was at Alibaba leading the development of Flink SQL, Flink Connectors, Flink CEP, PyFlnk, Flink ML among other Flink ecosystem projects.
- Bowen LiSenior EnigneerAlibaba
Bowen is a committer of Apache Flink and Senior Software Engineer at Alibaba. He is currently focusing on advancing Flink as a unified data processing system and developing Flink's metadata and batch capabilities. Bowen is the host of Seattle Flink Meetup, he frequently organizes meetups and events, and give talks on Flink.
- Catlyn KongYelp
Catlyn is a software engineer on the stream processing team at Yelp where she builds and maintains infrastructure that makes real-time data processing with Flink easy and reliable. Most recently, she’s been focusing on bringing in Apache Beam into the streaming ecosystem at Yelp.
- 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®”.
- Fakrudeen Ali AhmedArchitectAdobe
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.
- Flavio Paiva JunqueiraDell
Flavio Junqueira is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Dell. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, San Diego, and he is interested in various aspects of distributed systems, including distributed algorithms, concurrency, and scalability. His recent work at Dell focuses on stream analytics, and specifically, on the development of a novel storage system for streams called Pravega. Before Dell, Flavio held an engineering position with Confluent and research positions with Yahoo! Research and Microsoft Research. Flavio has co-authored a number of scientific publications (over 4,000 citations according to Google Scholar) and an O’Reilly ZooKeeper book on Apache ZooKeeper. Flavio is an Apache Member and has contributed to projects hosted by the ASF, including Apache ZooKeeper (as PMC and committer), Apache BookKeeper (as PMC and committer), and Apache Kafka.
- Gihoon YeomHyperconnect
Gihoon Yeom has worked as a software engineer for 4 years at HyperConnect. He is interested in using data to create new value and has focused on real-time distributed data engineering projects using Spark and Flink.