# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Berlin 2019 (October 7-9 2019): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/berlin-2019/speakers

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Speakers**

Berlin 2019

## About the speakers

Meet the experts from global companies like Airbus, Amazon, ING, Lyft, Netflix, Uber, and many 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

- Zainab Abbas — PhD Student, KTH
- Adrian Ackva — Research Intern, KTH
- Enrico Agnoli — Software Engineer, Workday
- Adil Akhter — Lead Engineer, ING
- Jesse Anderson — Managing Director, Big Data Institute
- Nikolas Anderson — Software Engineer, Uber
- Marton Balassi — Manager, Streaming Analytics, Cloudera
- Niels Basjes — Principal IT Architect, bol.com
- Julia Bennett — Senior Data Engineer, Netflix
- Matthew Brookes — Master's Student, ETH Zurich
- Jamie Chittenden — Lead Data Architect, Emirates NBD
- Michal Ciesielczyk — Machine Learning Engineer, Deep.BI
- Gyula Fora — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Marios Fragkoulis — Postdoctoral Researcher, Delft University of Technology
- Juan Gentile — Senior Software Engineer, Criteo
- Kenny Gorman — Co-Founder and CEO, Eventador.io
- Roman Grebennikov — Backend Engineer, Findify AB
- Philipp Grulich — Research Associate, TU Berlin
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Ma Guowei — Senior Technical Expert, Alibaba
- Steffen Hausmann — Specialist Solutions Architect Analytics, Amazon Web Services
- Fabian Hueske — Co-founder, Software Engineer, Ververica
- Vasiliki Kalavri — Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zurich
- Jeyhun Karimov — Researcher, DFKI GmbH
- Parag Kesar — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Dongwon Kim — Manager, SK telecom
- Konstantin Knauf — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Aljoscha Krettek — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Aaron Levin — Infrastructure Engineer, Stripe
- Bowen Li — Senior Enigneer, Alibaba
- Ben Liu — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Max Meldrum — Systems Research Engineer, RISE
- Robert Metzger — Co-founder, Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Maximilian Michels — Software Engineer, Apple
- David Morin — Devops Big Data, OVH
- Roshan Naik — Technical Lead, Uber
- Oleksandr Nitavskyi — Software Engineer, Criteo
- Piotr Nowojski — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Yann Pauly — Senior Software Engineer, OVH
- Massimo Perini — MSc Student / Researcher, EIT
- Wojtek Ptak — CTO, FreshMail
- Jiangjie Qin — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba
- Lakshmi Rao — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Till Rohrmann — Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Leire Fernandez de Retana Roitegui — Senior Software Engineer, Workday
- Francisco Javier Piqueras Ruiz — Big Data Architect, Indizen Technologies
- Fares Sabbagh — Senior Software Engineer, Criteo
- Christophe Salperwyck — Lead Data Scientist, Akamai Technologies
- Francisco José Guerrero Sánchez — Principal Big Data & Solutions Architect, Indizen Technologies
- Caito Scherr — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Klas Segeljakt — PhD Student, KTH
- Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Sherin Thomas — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Oytun Tez — CTO, MotaWord
- Jonas Traub — Research Associate, TU Berlin
- Antonio Verardi — Software Engineer, Yelp
- Timo Walther — Principal Software Engineer, Confluent
- Bo Wang — Senior Engineer, Alibaba Group
- Wei Wang — Senior Engineer, HanSight
- Patrick Wiener — Research Scientist, FZI Research Center for Information Technology
- Seth Wiesman — Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Hao Wu — Big Data Architect, HanSight
- Jin Yang — Software Engineer, Uber
- Kurt Young — Staff Engineer, Alibaba
- Andrey Zagrebin — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Philipp Zehnder — Research Scientist, FZI Research Center for Information Technology
- Sebastian Zontek — CEO, CTO, Deep.BI
- Regina Chan — Senior Engineer, Goldman Sachs
- Steven Bairos-Novak — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Vahid Hashemian — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Mike Mintz — Infrastructure Engineer, Stripe
- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Sören Reichardt — Software Engineer, Neo4j
- Eron Wright — Technical Staff, Dell EMC
- Haemee Park — Data Engineer, SK telecom
- Rahul Pathak — General Manager of Databases, AWS
- Matyas Orhidi — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Aizhamal Nurmamat Kyzy — Open Source Enthusiast, Apache Airflow
- Andrew Psaltis — Field Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
- Abdelkrim Hadjidj — Senior Data Streaming Specialist, Cloudera
- Jan Kunigk — Field Chief Technology Officer, Cloudera
- Enrico Canzonieri — Tech Lead of Data Infrastructure, Yelp
- Ryan Nienhuis — Senior Product Manager, AWS
- Sergei Sokolenko — Product Manager, Google
- Reuven Lax — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
- Dawid Wysakowicz — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Hassene Ben Salem — Chief Engineer, Airbus Defense and Space
- Andrew Torson — Principal Data Engineer, Salesforce
- Michael Latta — Co-founder & CTO, Cogility
- Chip Childers — CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation
- Patrick Lucas — Senior Data Engineer, Ververica
- Holger Temme — Head of Growth, Ververica
- Igal Shilman — Applications API Team Lead, Ververica