# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 (October 13-16 2025): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/barcelona-2025/speakers

Apache Flink® & Everything Streaming Data

**Speakers**

Barcelona 2025

## About the speakers

Meet the experts from global companies like Apple, Pinterest, Uber, Netflix, Bloomberg, 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

- Aitor Algorta — Head of Engineering, Airy
- Andre Teixeira — Software Engineer, Kuehne+Nagel
- Antonio Davide Cali — Staff Data Engineer, JustEat Takeaway
- Archit Goyal — Sr. Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Bahar Pattarkine — Staff Software Engineer, PlayStation
- Ben Gamble — Field CTO, Ververica
- Boyuan Huang — Product Director of AI and BigData platform, Alibaba Cloud
- Caio Camatta — Software Engineer, Stripe
- Carlos Santos — Senior Backend Engineer, tb.lx by Daimler Truck
- Cesar Fick — Data Engineer, Kuehne+Nagel
- Daren Wong — Software Engineer, AWS
- Derek Troy-West — CEO, Factor House
- Divya Manohar — Software Engineer, Stripe
- Dominik Bünzli — Data, Analytics & AI Engineer, Swisscom
- Dominik Žnidaršič — Lead Developer
- Erik Schmiegelow — CEO, Hivemind Technologies
- Erik Schumann — Product Owner Data Streaming, NORD/LB
- Fabian Wilckens — Chief Revenue Officer, Ververica
- Fábio Silva — Senior Backend Engineer, tb.lx by Daimler Truck
- Federico Aloi — Software Engineer, Apple
- Ferenc Csaky — Software Engineer, DataSQRL
- Fulvio Pascotto — Data Architect Tech Lead, Intesa SanPaolo
- Galo Freile — Enterprise Account Executive, Aiven
- Gennadii Gashev — Solutions Architect, Ottofeller
- Giannis Polyzos — Staff Streaming Architect, Ververica
- Guowei Ma — Senior Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Gustavo de Morais — Software Engineer, Confluent
- Hans-Peter Grahsl — Developer Advocate, Decodable
- Hashaam Ahsan — Data Engineer, UNIBERG GmbH
- Igor Kersic — CTO, Ververica
- Ioannis Stavrakantonakis — Staff Software Engineer, Ververica
- Jaehyeon Kim — Developer Experience, Factor House
- Jaime López — Head of Marketing, Ververica
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Jingsong Li — PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team, Alibaba Group
- Jonas Valkiunas — Team Leader, Bloomberg
- Jorge Alor — Technology Architect, Banco de Crédito Peru BCP
- Josep Prat — Sr. Engineering Director - Streaming Services, Aiven
- Juliusz Nadbereżny — Senior Data Engineer, Xebia
- Karin Landers — Product Marketing Manager, Ververica
- Kartikey Pant — Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
- Kyle Kearns — Vice President of EMEA, Aiven
- Lasse Nedergaard — Complex event processing architect, XCI
- Leonard Xu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Lincoln Lee — Staff Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Lorenzo Affetti — Staff Software Engineer, Ververica
- Lu Niu — Sr Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Maciej Bryński — Data Architect, Cledar
- Matteo Tonelli — Software Engineer, Adyen
- Maximilian Michels — Software Engineer, Apple
- Michał Stutzmann — Software Engineer, Swisscom
- Michas Szacillo — Senior Engineer, Bloomberg
- Muhammet Orazov — Senior Software Engineer, Ververica
- Naci Simsek — Technical Account Manager, Ververica
- Niharika Sakuru — Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
- Niklas Wilcke — Senior Software Engineer, UNIBERG
- Pedro Mázala — Principal Engineer, Evoura
- Péter Váry — Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Pravesh Gupta — Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Preeti Nayak — Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
- Riccardo Tommasini — Assistant Professor, University of Tartu
- Riccardo Zorzato — Data Engineer, Target Reply
- Rosa Seohwa Kang — Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
- Ryan van Huuksloot — Staff Engineer, Shopify
- Saurav Mawandia — Engineering Team Lead, Bloomberg
- Sergio Chong Loo — Staff Software Engineer, Apple
- Shalin Shah — Team Lead, Bloomberg
- Siddhartha Choudhury — Senior Product Manager, Booking.com
- Steffen Hoellinger — CEO, Airy
- Sujay Jain — Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
- Tejansh Rana — Senior Principal Engineer, Autodesk
- Thomas Weise — Software Engineer, Apple
- Timo Walther — Principal Software Engineer, Confluent
- Tucker Harvey — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Venkata Krishnan Sowrirajan — Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Vincenzo Topazio — Data Engineer, Agile Lab
- Vinod Chelladurai — Staff Data Engineer, Tools for Humanity
- Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi — Senior Software Engineer, Adyen
- Weiqing Yang — Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Xintong Song — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Yuan Mei — Alibaba, Director of Engineering