Seattle 2023

Industry-awarded senior architect/engineer in customer data platforms and event-driven systems. Hunter currently leads IBM's digital growth platform and is exploring the wonders and power of Apache Flink.

Basar Onat is an accomplished software engineer specializing in realtime streaming platforms. Currently at DoorDash, he works as a Software Engineer on the Real-Time Platform team, focusing on the Realtime Metrics Platform. Basar has also contributed significantly as a Software Engineer at Meta, handling large-scale data workloads with the Presto team. Prior to that, he played a vital role in bootstrapping the Realtime Platform at Striim. With his expertise, Basar brings valuable insights to the Flink Forward Conference, sharing his knowledge in building robust realtime streaming platforms.

Sharon has been building and maintaining streaming data platforms for over 6 years. She is a founding engineer at Decodable and leads the data platform development. Before Decodable, she was a tech lead of the real-time data platform at Splunk focusing on the query language and developer SDKs.

Operations technology software engineer at Schonfeld by day, Olympic Weightlifting competitor by night

Allison Cheng is a software engineer on the realtime platform team at DoorDash. Her team is responsible for providing the data ingestion platform for data users to capture, access and create real time insights. Before DoorDash, Allison was at Amazon on the Listing Management team, building the near realtime high volume data ingestion pipelines for sellers. Outside of work, She enjoys cooking for family and friends. She also started to try beginner hiking trails and biking

Prateek works at JP MorganChase Retail line of business and runs a streaming platform that enables quality insights across hundreds of customer facing applications.

Seasoned Tech Lead with a background in various industries like retail, telecom, tech, and banking, in various roles like engineering, consultancy, and management. Has worked on Apache Flink within ING since its inception in 2016, helping it grow towards the de facto standard for streaming at ING worldwide.

Jark Wu is a committer and PMC member of Apache Flink. He works as a software engineer at Alibaba and contributes to Apache Flink since 4 years ago. In Flink, he is mainly working on the Table & SQL API. Prior to Flink, Jark worked on JStorm which is a Java-version Apache Storm in Alibaba.