Conference Program

Shaoxuan Wang Alibaba

Apache Flink® Committer at Alibaba Shaoxuan is a senior staff engineer and director of engineering at Alibaba, working on Blink SQL and AI platform. Alibaba runs Blink, a fork of Flink, at very large scale and offers it as a service to internal and cloud customers. Prior to Alibaba, Shaoxuan was a senior software engineer working on social graph and core infrastructure at Facebook. Shaoxuan received his Ph.D degree from UC San Diego. He is an Apache Flink® committer. Shaoxuan and his colleagues are heavily contributing to Apache Flink®.

Till Rohrmann data Artisans

Till is a PMC member of Apache Flink and software engineer at dataArtisans. His main work focuses on enhancing Flink’s scalability as a distributed system. Till studied computer science at TU Berlin, TU Munich and École Polytechnique where he specialized in machine learning and massively parallel dataflow systems.

Keynote

A Year in Flink

Ecosystem

Elastic Streams at Scale

Dasheng Ju Meituan Dianping

Researcher in basic data department at Meituan Dianping. He is in charge for developing the big data development platform as well as for the real-time computing platform. Dasheng has rich experience with web crawler, distributed architecture and big data platforms.

Jinkui Shi Huawei Cloud

Jinkui Shi is a technology expert at Huawei Cloud. He has worked on the development of Internet products for more than 10 years. Currently, he is the team leader of Huawei CloudStream service and Vehicle Intelligent Twins. He have been focus on technical research in the field of big data for many years. He have a deep understanding of Apache Spark and Flink, and have studied machine learning and graph calculation. Good at designing and developing cloud products, and prefer Scala language.

Xingcan Cui York University

Xingcan Cui, who is interested in database and stream processing, is a committer of the Apache Flink project. He has just finished his Ph.D. study under the supervision of Prof. Xiaohui Yu at Shandong University, China and will continue his research as a postdoc at York University, Canada.

Xu Yang Alibaba

Xu Yang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group. He has been focused on distributed computing for about ten years, and now he is leading a team developing machine learning platform (code name: Alink) based on Flink.

Wenrui Meng Uber

Wenrui is a Senior Software Engineer on Uber’s Marketplace Data Intelligence team where he works on the stateful streaming and business metrics generation powered by different platforms. In his research at University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University, he’s involved some exciting research projects on how to verify the state machine against user requirements and how to transform state machine to runnable code, which is useful for the stateful streaming pipeline. In addition, he’s interested in making the business metrics generation efficient from both cluster resource and engineer effort perspectives.

Gordon Tai data Artisans

Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai is an Apache Flink PMC member and software engineer at data Artisans. His main contributions in Apache Flink includes work on some of the most widely used Flink connectors (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Elasticsearch). Gordon was a speaker at conferences such as Flink Forward, Strata Data, as well as several Taiwan-based conferences on the Hadoop ecosystem and data engineering in general.

Technology Deep Dive

Upgrading Apache Flink Applications: State of the Union