How Dollar General Leverages Streaming Pipelines for Real-Time Retail Use Cases

Suman Pattnaik leads the Merchandising and Supply chain Technology at Dollar General. He is a Big data and streaming Technology evangelist and Innovator. In his previous roles at Walmart, Suman architected as well as led teams that built Walmart’s modern, real-time inventory, forecasting and real-time replenishment platforms. Specializing in stream processing, big data architectures, and cloud computing at scale, Suman also has extensive experience designing various distributed platforms. He holds nine patents, with several more filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Suman has been a regular speaker at a variety of technology conferences and seminars and is the founder of the Bentonville Java and Cassandra Users Group. In 2022, Suman was honored as one of the five recipients of the "Leader in Data Streaming" award at Connect. He holds a BTech from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, India, and an MBA from Sam M. Walton Business College.

Bharath Chari leads the solutions marketing team for horizontal use cases at Confluent. In his current role, he has played an integral part in defining Confluent’s solution-centric approach and has successfully launched several end-end campaigns and GTM motions to generate market awareness and drive demand for solutions and use cases. Before joining Confluent, Bharath led global product marketing for IBM’s global data integration and AI portfolio. Bharath holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business and lives in Austin, TX.