# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward Global 2021 (October 26-27 2021): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2021/speakers

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Speakers**

Global 2021

## 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

- Alexander Fedulov — Ververica
- Andrew Nguonly — Netflix
- Andrey Falko — Tech Architect, Salesforce
- Arvid Heise — Ververica
- Brent Davis — Splunk
- David Anderson — Software Practice Lead, Confluent
- Dawid Wysakowicz — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Dian Fu — Alibaba
- Divye Kapoor — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest Inc
- Dylan Meissner — Developer, Nordstrom
- Fanshu Jiang — Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Felix Gessert — Baqend
- Frédérique Mittelstaedt — Tech Leadership, Reddit
- Gaël Renoux — Senior Developer, DataDome
- Heng Zhang — Software enginee, Pinterest
- Ingo Bürk — Other, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
- Jan Brusch — neuland - Büro für Informatik
- Johannes Moser — Ververica
- Joscha Cepok — neuland:::bfi
- Jowanza Joseph — Tech Architect, Finicity
- Jun Qin — Head of Solutions Architecture, Ververica
- Kasturi Chatterjee — Engineering Manager, Realtime Data Infrastructure, Netflix
- Konstantina Kontoudi — DataDome
- Levin von Hollen — neuland - Büro für Informatik
- Maciek Bryński — GetInData
- Martijn Visser — Ververica
- Nico Kruber — Solutions architect, Ververica
- Olena Babenko — Aiven
- Peter Huang — Uber Technologies Inc
- Rafał Małanij — GetInData
- Robert Metzger — Co-founder, Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Roman Grebennikov — Backend Engineer, Findify AB
- Roshan Naik — Technical Lead, Uber
- Seth Wiesman — Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Sundaram Ananthanarayanan — Netflix
- Thomas Weise — Software Engineer, Apple
- Till Rohrmann — Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Timo Walther — Principal Software Engineer, Confluent
- Timothy Bess — Bluechip Financial
- Tymur Yarosh — Intellias
- Wei Liu — Netflix
- Wolfram Wingerath — Baqend
- Xingbo Huang — Alibaba
- Xinran Waibel — Netflix
- Yaroslav Tkachenko — Shopify
- Zhang Jing — Kuaishou Inc
- Gunnar Morling — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Decodable
- Hans-Peter Grahsl — Developer Advocate, Decodable
- Aniket Mokashi — Engineering Manager, Facebook
- Lu Niu — Sr Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Zhongting Hu — Uber Technologies Inc
- Chen Qin — Sr Manager, Pinterest
- David Moravek — Tech Leadership, Ververica
- Nagesh Honnalli — Principal Software Engineer, AWS
- Brian Likosar — AWS
- Danny Cranmer — DevOps, AWS
- Steffen Hausmann — Specialist Solutions Architect Analytics, Amazon Web Services
- Francesco Tisiot — Staff Developer Advocate, Aiven
- Gyula Fora — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Neng Lu — StreamNative
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Addison Higham — Software Engineer, StreamNative
- Tim Spann — StreamNative
- Shuyi Chen — Software Engineer, Facebook
- Kenny Gorman — Co-Founder and CEO, Eventador.io
- Marton Balassi — Manager, Streaming Analytics, Cloudera
- Matyas Orhidi — Software Engineer, Cloudera
- Erik Beebe — Cloudera
- Robert Crowe — Data Scientist, Google
- Reza Rokni — Google
- Kenneth Knowles — Google
- Kyle Weaver — Google
- Yifan Mai — Google
- Asterios Katsifodimos — Delft University of Technology
- Vasiliki Kalavri — Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zurich
- Kym Hines — Splunk
- Bhavani Balasubramanyam — Reddit
- Vignesh Raja — Senior software engineer, Reddit
- Eric Sammer — Distinguished Engineer, Decodable
- Lorna Mitchell — Aiven
- Konstantin Knauf — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Maximilian Michels — Software Engineer, Apple
- Raffaele Saggino — Senior IT Infrastructure Architect, Intesa Sanpaolo
- Federica Pizzato — Intesa Sanpaolo
- Igal Shilman — Applications API Team Lead, Ververica