Stream Processing

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 116: Distributed Databases, Open-Source Standards, and Streaming Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar

Datacast Episode 116: Distributed Databases, Open-Source Standards, and Streaming Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar

Vinoth Chandar is the creator and PMC chair of the Apache Hudi project, a seasoned distributed systems/database engineer, and a dedicated entrepreneur. He has deep experience with databases, distributed systems, and data systems at the planet scale, strengthened through his work at Oracle, Linkedin, Uber, and Confluent.

During his time at Uber, he created Hudi, which pioneered transactional data lakes as we know them today, to solve unique speed and scale needs for Uber’s massive data platform. Most recently, Vinoth founded Onehouse - a cloud-native managed lakehouse to make data lakes easier, faster, and cheaper.

Datacast Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat

Datacast Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat

Shruti Bhat leads product management and marketing at Rockset. Before Rockset, she led Product Management for Oracle Cloud, focusing on AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing at Ravello Systems, where she drove the start-up's rapid growth from pre-launch to hundreds of customers and a successful acquisition. Before that, she was responsible for launching VMware's vSAN and led engineering teams at HP and IBM. Shruti has a bachelor's in computer science engineering and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

What I Learned From Attending Tecton apply(meetup) 2022

What I Learned From Attending Tecton apply(meetup) 2022

Last month, I attended another apply(meetup), Tecton’s follow-up virtual event of their ML data engineering conference series. For context, I have written recaps for both of their 2021 events, including the inaugural conference and the follow-up meetup. The content below covers my learnings, ranging from model calibration and ranking systems to real-time analytics and online feature stores.

Datacast Episode 85: Ad Exchange, Stream Processing, and Data Discovery with Shinji Kim

Datacast Episode 85: Ad Exchange, Stream Processing, and Data Discovery with Shinji Kim

Shinji Kim is the Founder & CEO of Select Star, an intelligent data discovery platform that helps you understand your data. Previously, she was the CEO of Concord Systems, an NYC-based data infrastructure startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016. She led the development of Akamai’s Internet-of-Things data platform for real-time messaging, log processing, and edge computing.

Prior to Concord, Shinji was the first Product Manager hired at Yieldmo, where she led the Ad Format Lab, A/B testing, and yield optimization. Before Yieldmo, she analyzed data and built enterprise applications at Deloitte Consulting, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Barclays Capital.

Shinji studied Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo and General Management at Stanford GSB. She also advises early-stage startups on product strategy, customer development, and company building.