# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Global 2020 (October 19-20 2020): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2020/speakers

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Speakers**

Global 2020

## 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

- Shashank Agarwal — General Manager, Razorpay
- Enrico Agnoli — Software Engineer, Workday
- Muhammad Haseeb Asif — Big Data Researcher, RISE/KTH
- Niels Basjes — Principal IT Architect, bol.com
- Lawrence Benson — Student, Hasso Plattner Institute
- Austin Cawley-Edwards — Senior Software Engineer, FinTech Studios
- Shahid Chohan — Infrastructure Engineer, Stripe
- Michal Ciesielczyk — Machine Learning Engineer, Deep.BI
- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Gyula Fora — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Zhenqiu Huang — Software Engineeer, Apple
- Nick Hwang — Engineering Manager, Intuit
- Simba Khadder — Founder and CEO, StreamSQL
- Ajit Koti — Senior Engineer, Netflix
- Aljoscha Krettek — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Nico Kruber — Solutions architect, Ververica
- Sruthi Sree Kumar — Research Intern, RISE/KTH
- Jingsong Li — PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team, Alibaba Group
- David Massart — Solution Architect, D.E.Solution
- Lasse Nedergaard — Complex event processing architect, XCI
- Pradeep Nethagani — Software Engineer, Yelp
- Jaehyeuk Oh — Azar, Matchmaking, Recommendation, Hyperconnect
- Marta Paes — Developer Advocate, Ververica
- Arti Pande — Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks India
- Fabian Paul — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Chen Qin — Sr Manager, Pinterest
- Lakshmi Rao — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Filipe Regadas — Software Engineer, Spotify
- Qingsheng Ren — Software Engineer, Alibaba
- Gaël Renoux — Senior Developer, DataDome
- Till Rohrmann — Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Alberto Romero — CTO and Co-Founder, Humn.ai
- Caito Scherr — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Kelly Smith — Principal Software Engineer, Zillow
- Dongjie Shi — Architect, Intel
- Chinmay Soman — Sr. Staff Engineer, Uber
- Jiaming Song — Machine Learning Engineer, Intel
- Timothy Spann — Field Engineer, Cloudera
- Xuannan Su — Software Engineer, Alibaba
- Menglei Sun — Senior Software Engineer, Houzz
- Julien Tournay — Data Engineer, Spotify
- Chethan U — Big Data Engineer, Rapido
- Balazs Varga — Flink Engineering Intern, Cloudera
- Dmitry Voronov — Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Manuela Wei — Principal Product Manager, Intuit
- Seth Wiesman — Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Jark Wu — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Andrey Zagrebin — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Krzysztof Zarzycki — CTO, GetInData
- Ping Zou — Principal Engineer, Intuit
- Ricky Saltzer — Senior Data Engineer, Epic Games
- Girish Baliga — Engineering Manager, Uber
- Peter Chalif — Managing Director, Citi
- Leire Fernandez de Retana Roitegui — Senior Software Engineer, Workday
- Jeongmin Kim — Software Developer, Hyperconnect
- Addison Higham — Software Engineer, StreamNative
- Renu Tewari — Director Engineering, Linkedin
- Xiaowei Jiang — Senior Director, Alibaba
- Hari Rajaram — Principal Data Architect, AWS
- Jeremy Ber — Solutions Architect, AWS
- Fabian Hueske — Co-founder, Software Engineer, Ververica
- Konstantin Knauf — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Rui Li — Software Engineer, Alibaba
- Venkata Sanath Muppalla — Senior Software Engineer, Uber