Community Spotlight
Zhenhao Li
Zhenhao is a Senior Data Engineer with the Royal Schiphol Group and is the founder of Natural Transformation B.V. He is also the organizer of Amsterdam Neighborhood Meetup.
Shivji Kumar Jha
Shiv is an architect at Nutanix and runs the stream platforms team to support multiple Nutanix products. Shiv is a Pulsar geek who contributes code, docs, blogs and talks to the Pulsar codebase and community. Shiv loves spending time on data stores (databases, streams, analytics etc), is an avid reader (tech, fiction, sports, economics, leadership to name a few) and is always looking at ways to simplify software architectures.
Aaron Williams
Aaron is a developer advocate and community manager focusing on expanding and growing the Apache Pulsar community. Aaron held a similar position for LF Edge (the Linux Foundation’s Edge umbrella project) and previously was the Global Director for SAP’s internal community and makerspace called the d-shop, overseeing the volunteers and staff of over 30 d-shops around the world.
Jowanza Joseph
Jowanza is VP of Engineering with Finicity, a Mastercard Company and is the author of the recently released book “Mastering Apache Pulsar” from O’Reilly Media. He has also spoken at our Neighborhood meetup.
Rob Morrow
Robert is the CEO and Founder of SigmaX.ai and previously was the CTO Federal of Cloudera and served as a technical thought leader at Sun Microsystems and has published many scientific peer-reviewed papers.
Pedro Silvestre
Pedro is a PhD student with the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) Group at Imperial College London, where his research focuses on the interplay between Dataflow Systems and novel Deep Learning Use Cases. Pedro wrote a blog post titled “On the Internals of Stream Processing” which was starting point for his talk at our meetup.
Enrico Olivelli
Enrico is a PMC member of Apache Pulsar, Sr. Software Engineer at DataStax, PMC for Apache ZooKeeper & BookKeeper projects, Committer for Apache Maven, and PMC Chair of Apache Curator. Enrico has done multiple talks at Neighborhood Meetups, plus outside talks at various JUGs.
