Amitai Stern is a software engineer & team lead of the OpenSearch team at Logz.io. Amitai works on Big data and SaaS projects, leading feature development from design to production monitoring. He is a contributor to the OpenSearch open-source project and has led the successful initiative at Logz.io to upgrade to OpenSearch.

Anna McDonald is a Principal Customer Solutions Technical Architect with Confluent. Prior to joining Confluent she was a Principal Software Developer with SAS Institute. She specializes in integration architecture and event streaming. Her most recent work includes creation of the Derivative Events design pattern. A speaker at Kafka Summit and Jfokus, her love of all things technical is matched only by her love of math puns.

A long builder of games, simulations, and collaborative user experiences.

Chinmay Soman is a founding engineer at StarTree, building real-time analytics solutions at scale. Previously he led the streaming platform team at Uber for building a large-scale, self-serve platform around messaging, stream processing and OLAP technologies. Before that, he worked at LinkedIn and IBM, focusing on distributed systems and security. He’s a PMC member of Apache Samza and a committer on Apache Pinot, Voldemort, uReplicator and AthenaX.

Danica began her career as a software engineer in data visualization and warehousing with a business intelligence team where she served as a point-person for standards and best practices in data visualization across her company. In 2018, Danica moved to San Francisco and pivoted to backend engineering with a derivatives data team which was responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that processes millions of financial market data per second in near real-time. Her first project on this team involved Kafka Streams – she never looked back. Danica now works as a Developer Advocate with Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines.

Outside of work, Danica is passionate about sustainability, increasing diversity in the technical community, and keeping her many houseplants alive. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

Darin Briskman is Director of Technology at Imply, where he helps developers create modern data applications. He began his career at NASA in the 1980s (ask him about rockets!), and has been working with large and interesting data sets ever since. Most recently, he's had various technical and leadership roles at Couchbase, Amazon Web Services, and Snowflake. When he's not writing code, Darin likes to juggle, blow glass (usually not while juggling), and working to help children on the autism spectrum learn to use their special abilities to work better with the neuronormative.

Software Engineer that loves data and databases. Started out as a DBA and always wanted to contribute to databases. In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family, going to the beach, biking and playing classical and electric guitar.

Haitao Zhang is a software engineer at StarTree, working on improving Apache Pinot. Previously, he was on Apple's AIML data infrastructure team and Uber’s Streaming Data Team, working on developing services, libraries and tools for Apache Kafka.

Hojjat is the founder and CEO of DeltaStream, a serverless database to manage, secure and process all your streams on cloud. Before starting DeltaStream, he was at Confluent where he created ksqlDB, a database purpose-built for stream processing applications from Confluent. Prior to Confluent, he worked at NEC Labs, Informatica, Quantcast and Tidemark on various big data management projects. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Irvine, where he worked on scalable stream processing and publish/subscribe systems.

Jia is a system & infrastructure engineer at LinkedIn. His focus is to develop new features/optimize performance of Pinot execution engine. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he received his PhD in parallel / high performance computing from the Ohio State University.

Ken helps clients solve big data problems using Flink, Pinot, and Lucene-based search. He's an ASF member and the past founder and CTO of Krugle, a vertical search engine for code and technical information. Prior to that he worked for Steve Jobs on the original Macintosh, and then pioneered MacOS support for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Tibetan and other languages.

Lakshmanan is a Backend Engineer and Technical Lead with 16+ years of experience in building scalable backend systems and services. He is currently building an in-house, state of the art analytics platform from scratch to crunch data and empower customers with real-time insights.

Techno-creative Data R&D Product Lead enjoys solving problems for data users (consumers, producers, and decision-makers) to deliver successful user and business outcomes by unlocking data potential. Grace Hopper 2019 Speaker. Passionate about data, applied AI, coaching, public speaking, and social good.

Martin is the Co-Creator of Trino and Presto. He is a CTO at Starburst where he leads research and development on Trino. Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Facebook where he led the Presto development team, and an architect at Proofpoint and Ning. Martin joined Facebook in 2012 when, at the time, Hive was the de facto platform for SQL analytics at Facebook. Seeing a need for fast interactive SQL analytics, Martin and 3 other engineers worked to create what became Presto. In the Spring of 2013, Martin and the team rolled out Presto into production at Facebook where it was later made open source in the Fall of 2013. In 2019, he and the other founders created a Trino fork off of Presto. Since then, Trino has gained wide adoption both internal and external to Facebook.

Mike has been a Software Engineer within the Data Platform at DoorDash for two years within the Analytics Engine team and has over 10 years experience working in big data and streaming technologies.

Navina Ramesh has spent the last 7+ years working on streaming infrastructures like Apache Samza and Apache Kafka at LinkedIn. She is a committer and PMC member in the Apache Samza project. She is currently a software engineer at StarTree and brings her experience of powering large-scale data systems to the Apache Pinot project.

Neha Pawar is a Founding Engineer at StarTree (https://www.startree.ai/), which aims to democratize data for all users by providing real-time, user-facing analytics. Prior to this, she was part of LinkedIn's Data Analytics Infrastructure org for 5 years, working on Apache Pinot & ThirdEye. She is passionate about big data technologies and real-time analytics databases.

Neha is an Apache Pinot PMC and Committer. She has made numerous impactful contributions to Apache Pinot, with a focus on real-time streaming integrations and ingestion. She actively fosters the growing Apache Pinot community & loves to evangelize Pinot by making entertaining video tutorials & illustrations.

When not sipping Pinot, you can find Neha jamming with her husband, painting or hiking with her dogs.

Nizar Hejazi is a staff software engineer at Rippling, tech leading RQL team. Nizar has a MSc in CS from Oxford University.

Ryanne works on data pipelines and streaming infra at LinkedIn. Primary author of MirrorMaker2. Previously at Twitter, Cloudera, Hortonworks.

Shay Lin is experienced in event-driven microservices and stream processing frameworks. Shay works at Confluent’s data team, focusing on real-time analytics and data infrastructure. Before Confluent, she built systems at scale for payment risk and fraud detection.

Tim is currently a software engineer at StarTree working on the data ingestion team. Tim has also worked at LinkedIn where he built several company analytics products on top of Pinot such as Talent Insights.

Tim Spann is the Principal Developer Advocate for Data in Motion @ Cloudera where he works with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, Apache Iceberg, TensorFlow, Apache Spark, big data, the IoT, machine learning, and deep learning. Tim has over a decade of experience with the IoT, big data, distributed computing, streaming technologies, and Java programming. Previously, he was a Developer Advocate at StreamNative, Principal Field Engineer at Cloudera, a Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData and a senior field engineer at Pivotal. He blogs for DZone, where he is the Big Data Zone leader, and runs a popular meetup in Princeton on big data, the IoT, deep learning, streaming, NiFi, the blockchain, and Spark. Tim is a frequent speaker at conferences such as IoT Fusion, Strata, ApacheCon, Data Works Summit Berlin, DataWorks Summit Sydney, and Oracle Code NYC. He holds a BS and MS in computer science.

https://www.datainmotion.dev/p/about-me.html

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Tomas Neubauer is co-founder and CTO at Quix, responsible for the technical direction of the company across the full technical stack, and working as a technical authority for the engineering team. He was previously the technical lead at McLaren, where he led architecture uplift for Formula One racing real-time telemetry acquisition. He later led platform development outside motorsport, reusing the know-how he gained from racing.

Vivek is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn working on developing and maintaining Pinot. Prior to LinkedIn, he worked as a Software Engineer for Cohesity, a startup in the data management space where he worked on building the distributed SpanFS filesystem.

Xiaobing Li is software engineer from StarTree, exploring ways to brew the best Pinot on cloud. Previously from AWS and Uber, with hands over Kafka, ClickHouse, ES and Spark.

Yupeng is a Principal Engineer at Uber and he leads Uber's Real-time Platform and Infrastructure, including multiple mission-critical services powered by several open-source technologies like Kafka/Flink/Pinot. Before Uber, he was a founding member of Alluxio Inc, and a PMC member of the Alluxio open source project. Prior to Alluxio, Yupeng worked at Palantir, building data analytics platforms.