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Evan Chan: Lessons Learned: Porting a Streaming Data Pipeline from Scala to Rust.
Evan Chan is both a data architect and a very hands-on engineer — can build a full data stack from scratch, but also love to — and have —...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 30, 20232 min read


Jeremy Smith: Aging: Evolving Software, Tools, and Ourselves.
Jeremy Smith is a long-time Scala programmer and type enthusiast. He currently works on the Machine Learning Platform team at Netflix,...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 30, 20231 min read


Anthony Annunziuata: AI, Quantum, & AI + Quantum: What’s Real, What’s Coming, and What’s the Point?
Dr. Anthony J. Annunziata, IBM, Director and General Manager (Product, Engineering and GTM), AI and Quantum Accelerated Science. Dr....

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro: Unlocking the Power of Data-Centric AI: Mastering Data Preparation for ML
Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro, Co-Founder & CEO at YData Gonçalo is a product builder and passionate about startups and technology. Has a...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Pathikrit Bhowmick: Full Stack Scala Web Application.
Pathikrit serves as the Director of Engineering at Coatue Management, a hedge-fund located in NYC. He has been a member of the Scala...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Dipankar Mazumdar: Apache Iceberg: enabling an open lakehouse architecture for large-scale analytics
Dipankar is currently a Staff Data Advocate at Onehouse.ai, where he focuses on open-source projects such as Apache Hudi and Onetable to...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Annie Talvasto: Kubernetes and MLOps for Scalable and Reproducible Generative AI.
Annie Talvasto, CMO at VSHN. Annie is an award-winning international technology speaker & marketing leader. She has been recognised with...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Denis Magda: Too Far Too Furious: Multi-Region Cloud Applications.
Denis started his software engineering career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he built JVM/JDK and led one of the Java development...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Sinan Pehlivanoglu: Oblivious Privacy in a Statically Typed World.
Sinan Pehlivanoglu is a software engineer at VMware. For the past few years he has been working on the intersection of PL and large scale...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Josh Tobin: Test-driven development for large language model applications.
Josh Tobin is the founder and CEO of Gantry. Previously, Josh worked as a deep learning & robotics researcher at OpenAI and as a...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Kendall Roden: Building scalable distributed systems powered by Dapr OSS.
Kendall is a Technical Product Manager at Diagrid, helping shape the future of cloud-native development through the creation of...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Zander Matheson: Scaling Embeddings in Real-Time.
Zander Matheson is the CEO and founder of Bytewax, a company focused on making stream processing more accessible and efficient for all...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Viktor Gamov: Gateway to the Future: A Brief History of Kubernetes Ingress
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud API connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Fabiana Clemente: Unlocking the Power of Data-Centric AI: Mastering Data Preparation for ML Success.
Fabiana Clemente is the co-founder of YData. In her experience as a Data Scientist, she developed expertise in topics such as Data...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Danica Fine: Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Alerting System with ksqlDB.
Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of Kafka and their event-driven...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Jim Dowling: Bridging Python and Lakehouse worlds with Arrow Flight and DuckDB
Jim Dowling is CEO of Hopsworks and an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He co-developed the open-source...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Louis Brandy:Challenges @ the intersection of ML & real-time data-lessons learned spam fighting @ FB
Louis Brandy is the Vice President of Engineering at Rockset. Prior to Rockset, Louis was Director of Engineering at Facebook. During his...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read


Ben Church: Creating Context: Loading your life into a vector database.
Located on the West Coast of Canada, Ben Church is a multifaceted senior engineer with a knack for navigating various domains and...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Beyang Liu: Open Source AI Coding Assistants: The Future of Software Development.
Beyang Liu is CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph. Prior to Sourcegraph, Beyang was an engineer at Palantir Technologies building...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20231 min read


Karthik Ramasamy: Latency goes sub-second in Apache Spark Structured Streaming.
Karthik Ramasamy has more than 20 years of experience including being CPO of Big Data startup that got acquired by Twitter. Karthik is...

Anastasia Khomyakova
Jun 20, 20232 min read
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