Apache Kafka

Datacast Episode 121: High-Performance Processing Engine, Modern Data Streaming, and Propelling Minority in Tech with Alex Gallego

Datacast Episode 121: High-Performance Processing Engine, Modern Data Streaming, and Propelling Minority in Tech with Alex Gallego

Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, a high-performance, Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform for mission-critical workloads. He has spent his career immersed in deeply technical environments and is passionate about finding and building solutions to the challenges of modern data streaming.

Before Redpanda, Alex was a principal engineer at Akamai and the co-founder and CTO of Concord.io, a high-performance stream-processing engine acquired by Akamai in 2016. He has also engineered software at Factset Research Systems, Forex Capital Markets, and Yieldmo; and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and cryptography from NYU.

Datacast Episode 110: Wisdom in Building Data Infrastructure, Lessons from Open-Source Development, The Missing README, and The Future of Data Engineering with Chris Riccomini

Datacast Episode 110: Wisdom in Building Data Infrastructure, Lessons from Open-Source Development, The Missing README, and The Future of Data Engineering with Chris Riccomini

Chris Riccomini is an engineer, author, investor, and advisor. He has worked on infrastructure as an engineer and manager for about 15 years at PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He was involved in open source as the original author of Apache Samza and an early contributor to Apache Airflow. He has also written a book with Dmitriy Ryaboy called The Missing README, a guide for software engineers. Lately, he has been investing in startups in the data space.