# Speakers

> Speakers at Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 (August 1-4 2022): the people presenting talks on Apache Flink® and streaming data.

Source: https://www.flink-forward.org/san-francisco-2022/speakers

Apache Flink® & everything streaming data

**Speakers**

San Francisco 2022

## 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

- Ethan Guo — Data Engineer, Onehouse
- Kunal Umrigar — Software Engineer, ThousandEyes
- Balint Kurnasz — Software Engineer, ThousandEyes
- Aansh Shah — Software Development Engineer, Amazon
- Jeff Chao — Tech Leadership, Stripe
- Sharon Xie — Founding Engineer and Product Lead, Decodable
- Ron Crocker — Tech Leadership, New Relic
- Patrick Lucas — Senior Data Engineer, Ververica
- Yupeng Fu — Tech Leadership, Uber
- Kyle Weller — Tech Leadership, Onehouse
- Xiang Zhang — Operations Engineer, Stripe, StarTree
- Gang Ye — Developer Relations, Apple
- Mason Chen — Operations Engineer, Apple
- Timo Walther — Principal Software Engineer, Confluent
- Jeff Niemann — Data Engineer, Neuro-Id
- Randy Hanak — Neuro-Id
- Yuan Mei — Alibaba, Director of Engineering
- Andreas Hailu — Data Engineer, Goldman Sachs
- Caito Scherr — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Hojjat Jafarpour — C-Level & VP Management, DeltaStream
- Ajay Vyasapeetam — Other, Bloomberg
- Scott Sandre — Other, Databricks
- James Busche — Developer Relations, IBM
- Ted Chang — DevOps, IBM
- Weiqing Yang — Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Denny Lee — Developer Relations, Databricks
- Ingo Bürk — Other, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH
- David Moravek — Tech Leadership, Ververica
- Jun Qin — Head of Solutions Architecture, Ververica
- Xintong Song — Staff Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
- Steffen Hausmann — Specialist Solutions Architect Analytics, Amazon Web Services
- David Anderson — Software Practice Lead, Confluent
- Danny Cranmer — DevOps, AWS
- Pratyush Sharma — Software Engineer, Stripe
- Madhuri Jain — Data Engineer, Bloomberg
- Robert Metzger — Co-founder, Engineering Lead, Ververica
- Piotr Nowojski — Software Engineer, Ververica
- Evan Anderson — Tech Leadership, VMware
- Steven Wu — Other, Apple
- Christian Tzolov — Tech Leadership, VMware
- Sonam Mandal — Other, LinkedIn
- Xiaoman Dong — Operations Engineer, StarTree
- Nico Kruber — Solutions architect, Ververica
- Yuriy Bondaruk — Tech Leadership, Uber
- Jingsong Li — PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team, Alibaba Group
- Rainie Li — Pinterest
- Kanchi Masalia — Pinterest
- Karl Friedrich — Ververica
- Olena Babenko — Aiven
- Sijie Guo — Founder, StreamNative
- Neng Lu — StreamNative
- Hong Teoh — Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services
- Usamah Jassat — Amazon Web Services
- Yixing Zhang — LinkedIn
- David Ponessa — Booking.com
- Pedro Ceriotti — Booking.com
- Thomas Weise — Software Engineer, Apple
- Johannes Moser — Ververica
- Yangqing Jia — Alibaba
- Jing Ge — CTO & Apache Flink PMC, Ververica
- Alex Fedulov — Ververica
- Matthias Pohl — Ververica