StarTree All-Stars fuel the Apache Pinot and StarTree ecosystem by contributing code, documentation, and evangelism through blogs, meetups, or events.
We want to recognize and reward the individuals who stand out, so we are proud to launch the class of 2023!
What is the StarTree All-Stars Program?
This global program recognizes leaders who go above and beyond, contributing extensively to the Apache Pinot and StarTree communities through knowledge sharing, advocacy, and support. All-Stars are provided access to exclusive product discussions and events and will be the first to know about significant product developments, features, and updates. They also receive limited-edition Pinot and StarTree swag!
What does it take to be a StarTree All-Star?
Contribution can include code or documentation commits, authoring blogs or whitepapers, speaking at conferences or meetups, and answering other community members' technical questions. Because every type of contribution is valuable, there's no specific “to-do” list to qualify, so the decision will be based on the applicant's overall contribution level and observable commitment.
Johan Adami
Software Engineer
Johan is a software engineer at Stripe on the stream analytics team, based out of New York City. View his talk "Migrating Low-Latency Time-Series Aggregation System to Pinot" from the Real-Time Analytics Summit 2022.
Elon Azoulay
Software Engineer
Elon majored in Computer Science at Rutgers University and fell in love with databases ever since. He has worked as a DBA, Data Engineer and finally a Software Engineer contributing to database projects. He was on the Presto team at Facebook and loves contributing to Pinot and Trino.
Diogo Baeder
Staff Software Engineer
Diogo is a software engineer focused on Python, web stuff, doing crazy things with data, and beating systems until he figures out how they can stay up while taking his punches.
Ting Chen
Staff Software Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Ting is a Software Engineer on Uber’s Data team. He is a Tech Lead on the Stream Analytics team whose mission is to provide fast and reliable real-time insights to Uber products and customers.
Saurabh Dubey
Software Engineer
Saurabh is Software engineer with a passion for learning and building performant applications.
Yupeng Fu
Principal Engineer
Apache Pinot PMC | Yupeng leads the real-time data platform and search platform at Uber. View his talk on Geospatial Support in Apache Pinot from an Apache Pinot Meetup in July, 2021.
Xiang Fu
Co-Founder
Apache Pinot PMC | Xiang Fu is the co-founder at StarTree, a cloud-native analytics platform to build the next generation of data analytics applications for millions of users. Prior to that, he was the architect at Uber's data platform team solving streaming data serving, processing, and analytics problems at a large scale.
Sharayu Gandhi
Senior Software Engineer
Sharayu is a passionate developer who loves working on Pinot. She has recently contributed the Segment Assignment Strategy Interface to Apache Pinot!
Jia Guo
Software Engineer
Jia has been part of Apache Pinot community for over an year now and contributes to Apache Pinot as part of LinkedIn's Pinot team.
Nizar Hejazi
Staff Software Engineer
Nizar is a Tech Lead and Staff Engineer at Rippling who specializes in Distributed Systems, Scalability, NoSQL databases, and Matching systems.
Vivek Iyer
Sr Software Engineer
Vivek is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn working on developing and maintaining Pinot. Prior to LinkedIn, he worked as a Software Engineer for Cohesity, a startup in the data management space where he helped develop the distributed filesystem SpanFS.
Jackie Jiang
Founding Engineer
Apache Pinot PMC | Jackie worked at LinkedIn's Pinot team for 4 and half years and became an Apache Pinot PMC and one of the top contributors, then joined StarTree in early 2020 as a founding engineer. He is passionate about making Pinot the most powerful real-time data analytics engine.
Kartik Khare
Software Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Kartik is a programmer by passion and profession, currently stuck in Bangalore traffic. Recent contributions include Spark 3.x support, Off-heap Upsert support, Realtime Protobuf decoder support, Kinesis and Pulsar connector, and JDBC query client.
Ken Krugler
President, Scale Unlimited
Ken has been running a boutique big data consulting company for the past 12 years. Prior to that he did a code search startup (Krugle), created a Tibetan version of the Mac OS, and broke Steve Jobs' toe at Apple. He is a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Akshath Kumar
Sr Staff Engineer
Akshath started his career at WePay as an engineer working on building scalable infrastructure in GCP using IAAC. He later built Kafka and its components and was one of the early adopters of debezium. He currently manages the INFRA team which is responsible for all the infrastructure availability and reliability.
Seunghyun Lee
Software Engineer
Apache Pinot PMC | Seunghyun is a Software Engineer at StarTree after being on LinkedIn’s Pinot team for more than 5 years. He is a PMC member of Apache Pinot and has contributed several critical features to the project including replica-group support, segment merge/rollup, consistent data push, and more.
Jialiang Li
Senior Software Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Jialiang Li is a Senior Software Engineer on the Online Analytics team at LinkedIn. He is a Committer of the Apache Pinot project. He has contributed to the Apache Pinot project and led some of the features like Pinot Helix controller separation, query throttling, data preprocessing, and consistent data push.
Xiaobing Li
Software Engineer
Xiaobing is a software engineer, particularly interested in data analytics and system observability and the intersection of both areas. You can read his blog about data ingestion and watch his talk with Neha Pawar on Tiered Storage from the Real-Time Analytics Summit 2022.
Luan Moreno M. Maciel
Sr. Cloud Consultant
Luan is a Big Data Engineer & Cloud Architect, MCSE Data Management & Analytics, AWS: Solutions Architect: Associate, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, GCP Professional Data Engineer, and Speaker. Visit his YouTube channel to learn more.
Sajjad Moradi
Software Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Sajjad has worked on different projects on the LinkedIn Pinot team which resulted in some contribution in Pinot OSS like enabling segment encryption in offline push jobs, ACL based authentication, or recently added some rules to Rule Engine for optimizing table configurations.
Mateus Oliveira
Big Data Engineer
Mateus has worked with data for the +8 years, developing streaming data pipelines for +3 years, Apache Kafka Certificated and Speaker. At the Kafka Summit 2021 he presented a session about Apache Kafka and Pinot Data Pipeline with Luan Moreno.
Prashant Pandey
Senior SDE
Prashant is a Software engineer at Razorpay interested in distributed systems and programming languages. He organized the first Pinot meetup in Bangalore and is very active on Slack, initiating and contributing to many discussions.
Aditya Patwal
Software Engineer
Aditya is a champion of Pinot at Fi and previously worked at Morgan Stanley and Samsung. He recently presented "Building Secure Data Platform and Customer Analytical Workloads Using Pinot" at the Fi Bangalore HQ.
Neha Pawar
Founding Engineer
Apache Pinot PMC | Neha has made numerous impactful contributions to Apache Pinot, with a focus on realtime streaming integrations and ingestion. She actively fosters the growing Apache Pinot community & loves to evangelize Pinot by making entertaining video tutorials, illustrations and blog posts.
Chris Prokopiak
Principal Software Engineer
Chris is a sports fantatic and avid golfer living in Denver. He evangalized Apache Pinot at Sovrn and plans to continue to promote to the wider community through events and interviews.
Alexander Pucher
Founding Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | StarTree to the moon! Alex has over 10 years of distributed systems experience and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. This entire time has been about bigger, better, faster data analytics in the cloud.
Rong Rong
Software Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Rong is a software engineer from StarTree. He is passionate about building data analytics, machine learning & stream processing platforms; and hacking on various OSS frameworks and tools. Prior to StarTree, Rong worked as software engineer in Facebook, Uber and LinkedIn; and practiced as barista, bartender and guitarist for 10+ years.
Anand Sainath
Tech Lead Engineer
Anand is a Pinot champion at Moveworks, ensuring that they are able to evaluate the technologies provided appropriately and making it a cornerstone for a new line of user-facing analytical products. He has spent quality time giving feedback on new and existing features.
Sanket Shah
Director
Sanket has contributed extensively to developing and maintaining the front end of Apache Pinot.
Atri Sharma
Senior Staff Engineer
Apache Pinot Committer | Atri is a part of the Search and Real-Time Analytics team at Uber and has contributed native text indices, real time text indices, FILTER clause for aggregates, and NOT operator to Apache Pinot.
Mayank Shrivastava
Founding Engineer | Head of Data Engineering
Apache Pinot PMC | Mayank is one of the original team members that built Apache Pinot at LinkedIn and a PMC for the project. He currently heads the Core Data Engineering org at StarTree and helps evangelize Apache Pinot in the open source community.
Weixiang Sun
Software Engineer
Weixiang has been a software engineer for more than 15 years with a focus in distributed system and cloud computing.
Siddharth Teotia
Staff Software Engineer
Apache Pinot PMC | Sidd works in LinkedIn Pinot team leading a group of people working on making Pinot better. Sidd has been part of Pinot community since June 2019 and actively participates in PR reviews, design reviews, joint collaboration with folks from open source and engineers from different organizations.
Ujwala Tulshigiri
Engineering Manager II
Ujwala leads the data realtime analytics team at Uber which built fast, reliable and scalable analytics platform based on Apache Pinot and Presto to power various business critical use cases and real-time dashboards at Uber.
Lakshmanan Velusamy
Engineering Lead
Lakshmanan is a Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in building scalable backend systems and services. Read his blog about the GapFill function for Time-Series Datasets in Pinot.
Haitao Zhang
Software Engineer
Haitao is a software engineer at StarTree, working on improving Apache Pinot. Previously, he was on Apple's AIML data infrastructure team and Uber’s Streaming Data Team, working on developing services, libraries and tools for Apache Kafka.
How do I apply?
Nominations are closed for 2023. If you have any questions, please contact our Community Team at community@startree.ai.
