In this keynote, Jun Rao will focus on the community and ecosystem that powers Kafka, the current state of the project and recognize recent contributions. We’ll hear how devs and organizations are using Kafka in their businesses and dive deep into what’s coming.
Jun Rao is a co-founder of Confluent and was a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn where he led the development of Kafka. Before LinkedIn, Jun was a researcher at IBM's Almaden research data center, where he conducted research on database and distributed systems.
Featuring:
Pritha Mehra - Chief Information Officer of the United States Postal Service, re-envisioning and transforming the enterprise for greater performance and innovation at scale. Pritha is a thought leader on digital transformations and is focused on modernizing the USPS ecosystems, platforms and network to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive market environment, overseeing an operation that processes more than 90 petabytes of data a year.
Chunyan Wang - leads the big data & analytics platform org at Pinterest, where he and his team are responsible for the company's data infrastructure and analytical tooling solutions at exabyte scale. Chunyan and his team have open sourced various projects in the data space, including querybook, orion, secor and memq.
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Jun Rao
ConfluentJun Rao is the co-founder of Confluent, a company that provides a stream data platform on top of Apache Kafka. Before Confluent, Jun Rao was a senior staff engineer at LinkedIn where he led the development of Kafka. Before LinkedIn, Jun Rao was a researcher at IBM's Almaden research data center, where he conducted research on database and distributed systems. Jun Rao is the PMC chair of Apache Kafka and a committer of Apache Cassandra.
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Pritha Mehra
The United States Postal ServiceA catalyst for industry-defining innovation, Pritha Mehra oversees one of the world’s largest technology infrastructures. With breadth and depth of expertise across a range of verticals, from marketing to technology, she has been tapped to steward critical change in every role of her career. Today she serves as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Postal Service, re-envisioning and transforming the enterprise for greater performance and innovation at scale.
Pritha is a thought leader on digital transformations and is focused on modernizing the USPS ecosystems, platforms and network to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive market environment, overseeing an operation that processes more than 90 petabytes of data a year. Recognized for her political savvy in a public organization that must perform like a private company, she is building win-win collaborations to ensure USPS achieves the financial sustainability and service excellence goals set out in its 10-year Delivering for America plan.
Présentateur
Chunyan Wang
PinterestLeads the big data & analytics platform org at Pinterest, where he and his team are responsible for the company's data infrastructure and analytical tooling solutions at exabyte scale. Chunyan and his team have open sourced various projects in the data space, including querybook, orion, secor and memq.