Aitor Algorta
Head of Engineering
Airy
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Aitor Algorta is Head of Engineering at Airy, where he builds open source data streaming tools with Kafka and explores the intersection of AI and real-time systems. He’s a full stack engineer, open source contributor, and avid kayaker based in Spain.
Andre Teixeira
Software Engineer
Kuehne+Nagel
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André stated his journey in software development at age 15 in high school when he realised he could tell the computer what to do instead of being told how to use it.
He started his professional career in 2012 as an intern in a software company working on the education sector, writing code using the Microsoft stack.
In 2019 he moved to a global company in the software security landscape, he created language parsing and code flow algorithms to detect vulnerabilities in the customer's source code.
Just last year André joined Kühne+Nagel where he started getting into big data processing using Flink on a daily basis to help the company accomplish real time data streaming.
Antonio Davide Cali
Staff Data Engineer
JustEat Takeaway
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Antonio is a Staff Data Engineer at JustEatTakeaway.com, where he leads the streaming ingestion team. His mission? To build self-service tools that empower teams across the company to land their data smoothly onto the Data Platform.
Antonio has worked across Europe for companies like LEGO and IKEA, proving he’s not afraid of assembling complex systems (or flat-pack furniture). He dove into the world of Apache Flink about a year and a half ago and has since been bravely battling stream processing dragons, including the questionable life choice of writing a custom BigQuery Flink Source Connector.
The most interesting thing about him? Easily his dog, named Spark. Yes, that Spark. It’s complicated.
An Italian man living in London.
I have a dog named Spark.
Archit Goyal
Sr. Software Engineer
LinkedIn
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Archit is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn and a founding member of the Flink Batch team. He brings experience in platformization and productionization, with a strong focus on making Flink Batch a reliable and scalable solution for large-scale data processing.
Ben Gamble
Technology Sommelier, AI Whisperer
Ververica
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A long builder of AI powered games, simulations, and collaborative user experiences, Ben has previously built a global logistics company, Large scale online games and Augmented reality apps. Ben currently works to make fast data and AI a reality for everyone.
Caio Camatta
Software Engineer
Stripe
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Caio is a Software Engineer in Stripe’s Machine Learning Infrastructure team. In the last three years he's helped develop Shepherd, Stripe's next generation ML feature computation platform, with a focus on the online and streaming components, and operational excellence. Outside of work, he’s an avid windsurfer.
Carlos Santos
Senior Backend Engineer
tb.lx by Daimler Truck
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Carlos Alcaide Santos is a software engineer specializing in backend development, data engineering, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. Since 2021, he has been working with Apache Flink at Tb.lx, a Daimler Truck company. Prior to this, he gained valuable experience at Talkdesk and Present Technologies.
Carlos completed a specialization in Networking and System Administration in 2013 and earned a bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering with a focus on software engineering in 2018, both from the Coimbra Institute of Engineering. Currently, he is pursuing a master's degree in Informatics Engineering with a specialization in Intelligent Data Analysis at the same institution.
Carlos is passionate about leveraging innovative technologies to build scalable, efficient systems and drive data-driven decision-making.
Cesar Fick
Data Engineer
Kuehne+Nagel
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Cesar has worked in IT for more than 25 years.
From the early days dealing with mainframe programs and VSAM files, evolving to relational databases like Oracle and Sql Server up to the current days using state of the art cloud data solutions like Snowflake and mostly AWS services, data is always in the core of his professional background.
For the past year, he has worked at Kuehne+Nagel as a data architect, helping to build the company's new data mesh.
Daren Wong
Software Engineer
AWS
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Daren is an experienced software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he specializes in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With a passion for real-time data streaming, Daren contributes extensively to the Apache Flink open-source community.
As an active contributor, Daren’s work includes:
- Apache Flink AWS Connectors: Creator of the CloudWatch connector and key contributor to the Kinesis, Firehose, and DynamoDB connectors.
- Apache Flink Prometheus Connector: Creator of the Prometheus TableAPI and SQL connector, enhancing monitoring and observability within Flink ecosystems.
- Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator: Contributor to the 1.3.0 release, with notable enhancements in error metadata and new configuration options.
Outside of his work at AWS, Daren is dedicated to fostering the growth of the Apache Flink community and is enthusiastic about sharing his expertise with the broader data community. He looks forward to discussing the power of Apache Flink and its potential for modern data-driven applications.
Divya Manohar
Software Engineer
Stripe
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Divya is a Software Engineer based out of Seattle, working on developing Shepherd, Stripe’s next-gen ML feature computation platform. Prior to her ML Infrastructure work, she spent 2 years working in Airflow, Stripe’s data orchestration system.
Dominik Bünzli
Data, Analytics & AI Engineer
Swisscom
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Dominik Bünzli is an experienced data streaming engineer with a strong background in business informatics and data science. His expertise spans IT infrastructure, data warehousing, and real-time data processing.
In his role as Data, Analytics & AI Engineer at Swisscom – Switzerland’s leading communications, IT, and entertainment provider – Dominik has been at the forefront of making Apache Flink accessible across the organization. By introducing Flink as a Service, he empowers teams to integrate real-time data into their operations, enabling faster insights and more responsive systems. His work focuses on the practical challenges of scaling streaming solutions in a complex enterprise environment.
Previously, at Viseca – one of Switzerland’s leading credit card issuers – he played a key role in developing a real-time fraud prevention system, driving a significant shift from traditional batch-based workflows to modern streaming architectures.
Dominik Žnidaršič
Lead Developer
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Dominik is a seasoned backend developer with a robust background, spanning construction software, financial systems optimization, and data analytics. Starting with robust microservices using MongoDB, Dominik shifted focus to optimizing and decomposing a high-transaction Oracle database, enhancing both performance and reliability. Recently, he has embraced the challenge of real-time data analytics, applying his deep-seated passion for performance optimization to Apache Flink projects. Dominik's work is driven by a zeal for maximizing efficiency and effectiveness in both code and infrastructure.
Fábio Silva
Senior Backend Engineer
tb.lx by Daimler Truck
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I am a Senior Backend Engineer with over a decade of coding experience, including professional work since 2016. Holding a master's degree in electrical engineering, my passion for software development has been a driving force throughout my career. I began my IT journey as a Telco Engineer before transitioning to a full-stack engineering role. Within a year, I discovered my true calling in backend development, focusing on designing scalable systems, resilient infrastructure, and cloud observability. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of leading multiple projects, driving innovative solutions, and mentoring teams. I am passionate about fostering innovation and sharing knowledge.
Federico Aloi
Software Engineer
Apple
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Federico is a software engineer on Apple's Search Infrastructure team, where he works on realtime indexing of web documents. The team operates large scale data pipelines to power search features across different software products. Previously, Federico studied Computer Systems and Networks Security at University of Milan, Italy. He's passionate about combining the power of distributed systems with deep performance optimizations to solve challenging problems at scale.
Ferenc Csaky
Software Engineer
DataSQRL
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Ferenc is a Software Engineer at DataSQRL, working to make Flink as user-friendly and easy to use as possible. He is a Flink committer, maintains several connectors including HBase and Kudu.
Previously, he led the Flink/SQL streaming team at Cloudera, serving as both an engineering manager and technical lead. During this time, he played a key role in shaping the direction of Flink's SQL and streaming capabilities for enterprise use cases.
Fulvio Pascotto
Data Architect Tech Lead
Intesa SanPaolo
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Data Architect Tech Lead with over 20 years of experience in IT, co-designer of the Intesa Sanpaolo framework for Flink “SCRAT”. Previously worked as a Solution Architect and Senior developer in the Data Technology Department, where he designed several architectures based on the streaming stack and develop components to leverage the digital transformation.
Gennadii Gashev
Solutions Architect
Ottofeller
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Gennadii Gashev is a Solutions Architect with six years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in designing and building cloud-native data solutions on AWS. At TFH, he collaborates with the Data Engineering team to develop scalable and automated data lake architectures using infrastructure as code (IaC) with AWS CDK, alongside services like S3, Lambda, Glue, DMS, and Kinesis. He has led initiatives involving data delivery pipelines and real-time processing with AWS Managed Apache Flink. Gennadii holds both the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Certified Developer – Associate certifications.
Giannis Polyzos
Staff Streaming Architect
Ververica
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Giannis is a Streaming Data Engineer & Architect experienced in event streaming and stream processing systems.
He helps companies modernize their data infrastructure by leveraging streaming technologies and enabling them to build fast and scalable data pipelines, streaming data flows, and deliver real-time analytics.
He is passionate about event streaming systems, stateful stream processing, and real-time analytics.
Guowei Ma
Senior Staff Engineer
Alibaba Cloud
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Guowei is a senior staff engineer from Alibaba Cloud and the head of the Flink engine team. Guowei is an Apache Flink Committer and PMC member.
Hans-Peter Grahsl
Developer Advocate
Decodable
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Hans-Peter Grahsl is a Developer Advocate at Decodable. He is an open-source community enthusiast and in particular passionate about event-driven architectures, distributed stream processing systems and data engineering. For his code contributions, conference talks and blog post writing at the intersection of the Apache Kafka and MongoDB communities, Hans-Peter received multiple community awards. He is a regular speaker at international developer and tech conferences for several years.
Hashaam Ahsan
Data Engineer
UNIBERG GmbH
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Hashaam is a Data Engineer with over 3 years of experience supporting our telco clients, leveraging his deep ML expertise to optimise data analytics pipelines and enhance observability.
Ioannis Stavrakantonakis
Staff Software Engineer
Ververica
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Ioannis combines his research & development experience from academia with his software engineering experience from Big Tech into his current role in Ververica, where he leads the development of the Ververica Platform.
Jaime López
Head of Marketing
Ververica
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Jaime López is a Marketing leader with a strong background in Marketing Operations and over a decade of success transforming Marketing at top B2B and SaaS companies, like the industry giant Wärtsilä and the unicorn scaleup Aiven. He is known for deep technical expertise and groundbreaking contributions to AI in Marketing. Jaime is also an internationally-recognized public speaker.
Jaime holds an M.Sc. (Tech) in Energy Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid; and a MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jark Wu
Flink SQL and Fluss team lead
Alibaba Cloud
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Jark Wu is a committer and PMC member of Apache Flink and the original creator of Flink SQL, Flink CDC, and Fluss. He currently leading the Flink SQL and Fluss team at Alibaba Cloud. His work has long centered on distributed systems, particularly in the areas of big data computing and storage.
Jonas Valkiunas
Team Leader
Bloomberg
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Jonas Valkiunas is a Team Leader in Bloomberg’s Compliance Reliability Engineering group, where he is responsible for guiding the team as they define, measure, forecast, and manage the reliability of the firm’s Compliance Solutions applications and environments. Since joining the company in 2012, he has worked on a variety of cloud and infrastructure engineering teams. He is passionate about developing creative solutions to complex problems. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from North Central College.
Jorge Alor
Software Developer
Banco de Crédito Peru BCP
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I like to design and implement robust and scalable business solutions making use of new technologies and best practices in software development. I am passionate about the challenges and aligning Open Source technologies with the needs of the customers.
Juliusz Nadbereżny
Senior Data Engineer
GetInData
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I'm a passionate data engineer with a specialization in streaming solutions based on Apache Flink. With a deep expertise in real-time data processing and a keen eye for big data technology. Beyond my work, I'm a devoted father to my son, Antoni, who inspires me daily.
Karin Landers
Product Marketing Manager
Ververica
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Data and operations number cruncher, workflow creator, manager, and storyteller. Karin has spent 5 years working behind-the-scenes with Apache Open Source projects, products and people, including the Pulsar and Flink communities.
Kartikey Pant
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
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Kartikey Pant is a Senior Software Engineer who builds and operates Apache Flink pipelines processing terabytes of data daily. He brings deep expertise from prior AI/ML research, with work recognized at workshops at leading venues like WWW & AAAI.
Kartikey's vision is to leverage these insights to make Flink easier and more automated through AIOps. As an engaged contributor to the Apache Flink community, he aims to help improve Flink's operational tooling and make stream processing more accessible.
Lasse Nedergaard
Complex event processing architect
XCI
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Worked with Apache Flink since 1.2 and love to share knowledge and help others to use the technology.
Implemented a IoT platform based on Flink and analytics services using Flink SQL
Leonard Xu
Staff Software Engineer
Alibaba Cloud
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Apache Flink PMC Member & Committer, Flink CDC Lead, Staff Software Engineer@Alibaba
Lincoln Lee
Staff Engineer
Alibaba Cloud
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Lincoln is a Committer and PMC member of Apache Flink. He is a staff engineer from Alibaba Cloud and has been focused on Flink SQL and stream-batch unification for many years.
Lu Niu
Sr Staff Software Engineer
Pinterest
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Lu Niu is the founding member and current Tech Lead of the Streaming Data Processing team at Pinterest. Prior to joining Pinterest, he played a pivotal role in building Presto as a Service at Uber. Lu is passionate about big data and distributed systems, and has contributed to several prominent projects including Flink, Presto, and Velox
Erik Schumann
Product Owner Data Streaming
NORD/LB
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Erik Schumann is the product owner of the streaming data platform at NORD/LB. This includes Kafka, Flink as well as the Data Quality Platform. Usually described as talking with people and drawing pictures he designs solution architectures, ensures data management requirements are met and coordinates the platform team.
Gustavo de Morais
Software Engineer
Confluent
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Gustavo is a Senior Software Engineer on the Flink SQL & TableAPI Team at Confluent. He's a Full-Stack Software Developer with around 10 years of experience, and over the past 2.5 years at Confluent, he's dived into data streaming. He's been the lead engineer on the Flink CLI and Flink SQL Language Service for Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®.
Lately, working closely with Flink Committers and PMCs, he's also been contributing to Open Source Apache Flink® in different fronts, notably leading the FLIP-516: Multi-Way Join Operator effort to tame the "Big State monster" of Flink streaming joins. Throughout his career, Gustavo has built several end-to-end systems for startups and multinational companies, co-founded a company, and began contributing to open source through Google Summer of Code.
Kyle Kearns
Vice President of EMEA
Aiven
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As Vice President of EMEA for Aiven, the managed open-source data technology platform, Kyle Kearns leads the company's entire go-to-market (GTM) strategy across the region. His deep experience in open source, streaming technologies, and databases was honed through key leadership roles at other prominent data companies like Stratio, Starburst, and Databricks. Throughout his career, Kearns has excelled at building successful commercial strategies, utilizing a partner-first approach to translate complex technical capabilities into scalable customer solutions. This has established him as a forward-thinking leader adept at solving critical business challenges with data in the fast-paced tech landscape.
Maciej Bryński
Data Architect
Cledar
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Data Architect at Cledar specializing in building modern data platforms that integrate real-time processing with artificial intelligence. I'm an active contributor to open-source projects including Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink. As a returning speaker at Flink Forward (2020 and 2024), I've shared practical insights on implementing scalable streaming solutions. My current focus is on developing agentic AI systems that can autonomously interact with streaming data platforms. I'm passionate about bridging the gap between real-time data processing and intelligent systems, and enjoy teaching complex data concepts to help others leverage these powerful technologies.
Maximilian Michels
Software Engineer
Apple
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Max is a software engineer at Apple who loves distributed systems and stream processing. Max previously worked on large-scale data processing tools and platforms at Google, Lyft, and Splunk. Max is a PMC member at the Apache Flink project.
Michał Stutzmann
Software Engineer
Swisscom
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Michał works as a software engineer in the infrastructure analytics department at Swisscom. He holds an M.Sc. in electronics and telecommunications. In his professional career he focused on developing distributed systems used for provisioning, monitoring and analysis of telco networks and telco events. In the recent years he worked mostly with streaming technologies provided by the Kafka stack Flink, Spark and Akka.
Michas Szacillo
Senior Engineer
Bloomberg
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Michas is a senior software engineer and tech lead on Bloomberg’s Streaming Analytics engineering team. The platform, which is running on Kubernetes, serves as the foundation for many of Bloomberg's data streaming use cases. Michas is also a frequent collaborator to the CNCF community, with contributions to projects including Karmada and KServe.
Mike Araujo
Principal Engineer
Medidata Solutions
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Mike is a principal engineer at Medidata Solutions working on building a next generation data platform for clinical data and trials. By leveraging the power of open source technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg, Mike along with his team has enabled the delivery of billions of clinical events and data transformations in near real time to downstream consumers and applications. His core skills focus on architecting and building big data and ETL solutions at scale, with an emphasis on real time analytics and modern lakehouse solutions.
Muhammet Orazov
Senior Software Engineer
Ververica
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Muhammet is Software Engineer at Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink®. He is member of the Engine team that develops various Flink engines for different platforms. He is experienced in databases, distributed systems and started his journey in streaming systems at Ververica.
Naci Simsek
Technical Account Manager
Ververica
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Naci Simsek is a Technical Account Manager at Ververica with over 17 years of experience in IT and Telecom. He began his career as a Customer Support Engineer at Nortel Networks, advancing through roles as Software Engineer, Engineering Team Lead, Project Manager, and Solutions Architect at Huawei. Over nearly a decade, he specialized in customer-facing big data solutions as a Platform Engineer, BI Engineer, and Data Engineer. In his current position, he supports customers in leveraging Apache Flink for real-time data streaming across on-premises and cloud environments.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Ege University, an MBA from Bahcesehir University, and the PMP® certification.
Niharika Sakuru
Senior Software Engineer
Bloomberg
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Niharika Sakuru is a Software Engineer at Bloomberg who is currently adulting in Jersey City. She is part of the Compliance Engineering org, working in the team that owns stream processing applications that surveil real-time communication. At the moment, she is working on enhancing the performance of streaming applications. Niharika is a member of the company’s Distributed Systems Guild and Bloomberg’s Women in Technology (BWIT) community. Outside of work, Niharika loves dancing, yoga, traveling, animals, and chocolates.
Niklas Wilcke
Senior Software Engineer
UNIBERG
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Niklas is a Software Engineer and Architect with a focus on distributed systems, who gained 14 years of experience in the industry. During that time, he developed a strong preference for stream processing technologies and fell in love with Apache Flink somewhen in 2020.
Pedro Mázala
Principal Engineer
Evoura
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Working as a Platform Engineer, Pedro Mázala helps teams achieve scalable systems with architectures based on stream processing, durable execution, back pressure by design, and other cool words on the tech side of the force.
As a Platform Engineer, Pedro sees this role as a tool to help Product Teams achieve scalability and reliability without losing the focus on what matters, THE PRODUCT. Distributed systems, shared lock mechanisms, ordering, back pressure, retryability, reprocessing, idempotency, and other scary words must be sorted by design to allow healthy and strong products to grow.
You may hear him asking questions about ordering and delivery guarantees here and there.
Pravesh Gupta
Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn
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Pravesh has been working in Big Data Distributed Systems since 2016 and has worked from scratch in building a Realtime OLAP Like Analytical Platform using Apache Druid. Pravesh is currently working as a Tech Lead for Building Scalable, Robuts, Reliable & Realtime Tracking Infra for LinkedIn Scale.
Pravesh has interest in building and solving scale related design challenges in highly distributed systems.
Preeti Nayak
Senior Software Engineer
Bloomberg
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Preeti Nayak is a Senior Software Engineer in Bloomberg’s Compliance Reliability Engineering group, with an interest in scaling distributed systems and data pipelines through automation and cloud-native solutions. Before joining Bloomberg, she interned at Meta on the WhatsApp Infra team and was a Lead Engineer in the Web Engine & Privacy team at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore. Preeti earned a bachelor’s in computer engineering from VJTI Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Riccardo Tommasini
Assistant Professor
University of Tartu
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Riccardo Tommasini is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Riccardo did his PhD at the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on “Velocity on the Web”. The thesis investigates the velocity aspects that concern the Web environment, together with other challenges such as variety and volume. His research interests span Stream Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Logics and Programming Languages. Riccardo’s tutorial activities comprise Stream Processing Tutorials at ISWC 2017, ICWE 2018, ESWC 2019, and TheWebConf 2019, and DEBS 2019. Moreover, he actively participates in many meetups in Italy and Estonia.
Rosa Seohwa Kang
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Shopify
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Rosa Kang is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify, specializing in cloud-native technologies and resource optimization. Since joining Shopify in September 2023, she has optimized Flink stream processing workloads resulting in monthly savings of $32K, as well as contributed to open-source projects, including improving LinkedIn's Cruise Control for Apache Kafka. A passionate advocate for innovation, Rosa has shared insights and best practices at industry events, including presenting at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) event. With a strong interest in both infrastructure engineering and software development, she focuses on driving excellence in performance and cost-efficiency within cloud environments.
Ryan van Huuksloot
Senior Engineer
Shopify
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Ryan is a Senior Engineer and Technical Lead for Shopify's Flink Platform team. Over the past four years, he's accelerated Shopify’s adoption of streaming infrastructure—initially building Scala-based DataStream APIs and key Flink connectors, and most recently leading the initiative to democratize stream processing with Shopify's Flink SQL platform. Passionate about simplifying infrastructure complexity and improving developer productivity, Ryan focuses on creating intuitive tooling and robust automation to sustainably enable real-time streaming pipelines at Shopify's global scale.
Saurav Mawandia
Engineering Team Lead
Bloomberg
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Saurav Mawandia is an Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg, where he leads the development of high-performance back-end systems that support real-time financial data delivery, including the IBVAL Front Office intraday pricing solution. With more than a decade of experience in software engineering, Saurav specializes in building scalable, reliable infrastructure. His work focuses on system design, distributed computing, and optimizing performance for low-latency data pipelines. At Bloomberg, he also plays a key role in mentoring engineers and fostering a collaborative team culture
Sergio Chong Loo
Staff Software Engineer
Apple Maps
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Sergio is a Staff Software Engineer at Apple Maps Infrastructure. His expertise includes System Architecture, Microservices (SaaS/PaaS) and Databases. He’s currently focused on Data Streaming/Analytics pipelines on the Cloud with Flink, Iceberg and Scala. Before Apple he worked on building Services for the Energy and Utilities Trading Market, and he helped built a national network of LP Gas stations in Mexico prior to that. Aside from work he’s a guitar player and music production enthusiast.
Shalin Shah
Team Lead
Bloomberg
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Shalin is a Team Lead at Bloomberg managing the Data Platforms team. His expertise includes System Architecture, Microservices (SaaS/PaaS) and Big Data Systems. He’s currently focused on Data Platform infrastructure with Flink, Iceberg, Trino and Superset. Before Bloomberg he worked on building Data Federation layer at an Investment bank and dabbled his hands at a startup in the space of Golf . Aside from work he likes to play Cricket, Tennis and loves to watch F1.
Sharon Xie
Head of Product
Decodable
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Sharon is the Head of Product at Decodable, where she shapes the product vision and drives the development of the company’s real-time data platform. She first joined Decodable as a founding engineer, bringing more than a decade of full-stack engineering experience spanning web applications, data platforms, and underlying infrastructure. Before joining Decodable, she served as the technical lead for the real-time data platform at Splunk, focusing on the streaming query language and developer SDKs. Over the past seven years, she has specialized in designing and operating real-time data systems, developing extensive expertise in Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and Debezium
Steffen Hoellinger
CEO
Airy
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Steffen is the CEO and co-founder of Airy, a Data Streaming for AI company building the agentic AI layer for stream processing powered by Apache Flink.
Sujay Jain
Senior Software Engineer
Netflix
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Sujay is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, where he is part of the Data Platform team. He tackles a range of challenges in data movement, processing and real-time analytics space and has contributed to key platforms like Data Mesh and Keystone. Prior to joining Netflix, Sujay was part of the Data Infrastructure team at Meta.
Thomas Weise
Software Engineer
Apple
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Thomas is Software Engineer, Streaming Platform Infrastructure at Apple, working with Apache Flink. Earlier he has been at a number of other technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including DataTorrent, where he was a Co-Founder of the Apex project. Thomas is committer and PMC member for Apache Flink and Apache Beam and has contributed to several more of the ASF ecosystem projects.
Timo Walther
Principal Software Engineer
Confluent
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Timo Walther is a Principal Software Engineer at Confluent and a long-time member of Apache Flink’s management committee. He studied Computer Science at TU Berlin and was part of the Database Group there - the origins of Apache Flink. In Flink, he is working on various topics in the Table & SQL ecosystem to make stream processing accessible for everyone.
Tucker Harvey
Software Engineer
Pinterest
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Tucker Harvey graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2022. He has worked on the Streaming Processing Platform team at Pinterest for the past two years, where he develops Flink as a Service to support various streaming and, more recently, Flink Batch use cases within the company. Previously, he interned at Pinterest on both the Batch Processing Platform team and the Query Platform team, gaining valuable experience in large-scale data processing and data query systems.
Venkata Krishnan Sowrirajan
Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn
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Venkat Sowrirajan is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn specializing in building scalable batch processing infrastructures. Currently, he leads the development of LinkedIn’s Flink Batch platform, enhancing its large-scale data capabilities. Previously, Venkat contributed significantly to Apache Spark projects, tackling shuffle infrastructure challenges to meet LinkedIn’s massive data scale. With experience at startups like Qubole and MapR, Venkat has a deep passion for distributed systems and has contributed to open-source projects including Flink, Spark, and Iceberg.
Vincenzo Topazio
Data Engineer
Agile Lab
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Experienced Data Engineer with a strong background in building real-time data processing pipelines. With a passion for distributed systems and data-intensive applications, I've worked across multiple industries to deliver resilient architectures based on technologies like Kafka, Spark, and Flink. Currently supporting digital transformation in the banking industry by building scalable, near-real-time data streaming solutions.
Vinod Chelladurai
Staff Data Engineer
Tools for Humanity
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Vinod Chelladurai is a Staff Data Engineer with extensive experience designing event streaming and real-time data pipelines for analytics at scale. He has led multiple initiatives to build and optimize data infrastructure across different industries, leveraging cloud-native technologies like AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka. Vinod was also recognized as a Confluent Catalyst for 2023–24 for his contributions to the streaming data community.
Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi
Senior Software Engineer
Adyen
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Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi is Senior Software Engineer at Adyen working in fraud prevention and MLOps fields. He's the major contributor to Adyen's Feature Platform with primary focus on stream processing with Apache Flink.
His career spans over more than 20 years and wide variety of domains and languages with lately focusing on Java and Payment Processing field.
Weiqing Yang
Staff Software Engineer
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, ApacheCon 2020, Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 and Seattle 2023.
Xintong Song
Staff Software Engineer
Alibaba Cloud
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Xintong is an Apache Flink PMC member. He is also a Staff Software Engineer and leads the Flink Java Engine Team at Alibaba. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Peking University.
Yuan Mei
Director of Engineering
Alibaba Group
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Dr. Yuan Mei is a PMC member of the Apache Flink project focusing on the State and Runtime stack. She is the Director of Engineering at Alibaba and leads the Flink storage engine team. She is also the architect of Flink Engine. Before joining Alibaba, Dr. Mei was a research scientist at Facebook, leading and developing various streaming systems. She holds a Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL.
