# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 (April 1-2 2019): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

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

**Apache Flink® & everything streaming data Speakers**

San Francisco 2019

## About the speakers

Flink Forward speakers are experts from global companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, AWS, Lyft, Netflix, Splunk, 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

- Stephan Ewen — CTO, Ververica
- Piotr Nowojski — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Thomas Weise — Software Engineer, Apple
- Till Rohrmann — Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Shuyi Chen — Software Engineer, Facebook
- Shaoxuan Wang — Senior Staff Engineer, Alibaba
- Elliot Chow — Software Engineer, Netflix
- Anand Swaminathan — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Xuefu Zhang — Open Source Veteran, Alibaba
- Luca Giovagnoli — Software Engineer, Yelp
- Ning Shi — Klaviyo
- Dave Torok — Enterprise Software Architect, Comcast
- Addison Higham — Software Engineer, StreamNative
- Roshan Naik — Technical Lead, Uber
- Ray Ruvinskiy — Arctic Wolf Networks
- Xiaogang Shi — Senior Software Engineer, Tencent
- Robert Crowe — Data Scientist, Google
- Aslam Tajwala — VP of Engineering, Cogility
- Snehal Nagmote — Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
- Matthew Dailey — Backend Software Engineer, Splunk
- Aditi Verma — Senior Software Engineer, Branch Metrics
- Pala Muthiah — Data Platform Engineer, Airbnb
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Prem Santosh Udaya Shankar — Software Engineer, Yelp
- Vivek Thakre — Principal Software Engineer, Intuit.com
- Fangjin Yang — Co-founder, Imply
- Greg Finch — Senior Product Manager, John Deere
- Isaac Mckillen-Godfried — Data Scientist, AI Stream
- Aljoscha Krettek — Senior Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Akshay Balwally — Software Engineer, Lyft
- Ketan Umare — Engineer, Lyft
- Jonathan Walsh — Arctic Wolf Networks
- Pallavi Phadnis — Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
- Hao Wang — Software Engineer, Airbnb
- Vipul Singh — Tech Lead, Yelp
- Adam Butler — Product Lead, John Deere
- Rong Rong — Senior Software Engineer, Uber
- Bowen Li — Senior Enigneer, Alibaba
- Ramesh Shanmugam — Senior Data Platform Engineer, Branch Metrics
- Xiaowei Jiang — Senior Director, Alibaba
- Kostas Tzoumas — Co-founder and CEO, Ververica
- Jonathan Miles — The Trade Desk
- Robert Metzger — Co-founder, Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Xu Yang — Alibaba
- Pablo Estrada — Software Engineer, Google
- Seth Wiesman — Solutions Architect, Ververica
- Srikanth Satya — Vice President of Engineering, Dell EMC