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Program committee
Global 2020
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
- 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.
- Seth WiesmanSolutions ArchitectVerverica
Seth Wiesman is a Solutions Architect at Ververica, where he works with engineering teams inside of various organizations to build the best possible stream processing architecture for their use cases.
- Regina ChanSenior EngineerGoldman Sachs
Regina Chan is a Senior Engineer at Goldman Sachs in the Data Architecture team building solutions to service the firm’s growing demand for data. She is one of the original members of the Data Lake team building it from the ground up and has been leading the effort in rebuilding using Flink.
- 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.
- Aaron LevinInfrastructure EngineerStripe
Aaron Levin is a mathematician-turned-radio-DJ-turned software engineer working on Stripe’s real-time data team (✨Streaming✨). Aaron used to live in Berlin, but now lives in Canada’s Berlin (Montréal - not to be mistaken with Berlin, Ontario).
- Piyush NarangStaff Development LeadCriteo
Piyush is a Staff Development Lead in Criteo’s AI Lab. His work involves building data infrastructure solutions to accelerate the pace of Machine Learning innovation at Criteo. Previously, he worked on various big-data libraries like Scalding, Algebird and Parquet at Twitter. In his free time, he's found either trail running or curled up with a book (typically not at the same time).
- Renu TewariDirector EngineeringLinkedin
Renu Tewari leads the streaming infrastructure team at Linkedin which is the home of Kafka, Samza, and Brooklin. Prior to that she led the Kafka and Flink teams at Cloudera. She has over 20 years of experience in the field with an avid interest in stream processing architectures, big data and filesystems. She graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Mammad ZadehVP EngineeringIntuit Data Platform
Mammad Zadeh is currently leading the Intuit Data Platform team and is responsible for the data and machine learning platforms. He was previously heading the real-time data infrastructure at LinkedIn, responsible for streaming and persistence technologies, overseeing the development and operationalization of Kafka, Samza, Espresso, Voldemort, and related technologies. Prior to that he held leadership and architecture positions at Netflix and Yahoo. Mammad is also a musician, and an occasional music producer, photographer, and enjoys coaching and mentoring talent.