StarTree All-Stars

Leading the way forward to inspire and shape our community’s future

    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. 

    Meet the Class of 2024

    Stripe
    Stripe

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    Starburst
    Starburst

    Elon Azoulay

    Staff 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.

    Uber
    Uber

    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.

    Uber
    Uber

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    Saurabh Dubey

    Software Engineer

    Saurabh is Software engineer with a passion for learning and building performant applications.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    Xiang Fu

    Co-founder & 
Founding Engineer

    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.

    Uber
    Uber

    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.

    Dialpad (All-Stars Page)
    Dialpad (All-Stars Page)

    Evan Galpin

    Engineering Manager

    Evan is a technology leader passionate about high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn

    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!

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    WePay
    WePay

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn

    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.

    Moveworks
    Moveworks

    Shruti Mantri

    Software Architect

    Shruti graduated in Computer Science from BITS Pilani Goa Campus in 2011. She has been associated with multiple companies like Oracle, Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra, Twitter and Moveworks. She works in backend and data engineering, and more presently in architect solutions for data engineering problems. She is also a Udemy instructor, with 7 authored courses related to Data Engineering.

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn

    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.

    One Way Solution
    One Way Solution

    Mateus Oliveira

    Data Architect

    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.

    Sovrn (Logo for All-Stars page)
    Sovrn (Logo for All-Stars page)

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    Rong Rong

    Software Engineer

    Apache Pinot PMC | 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

    Co-Founder at Stealth

    Anand is a Pinot champion, 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.

    Uber
    Uber

    Atri Sharma

    Sr. Principal 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.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn

    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.

    LinkedIn
    LinkedIn

    Vivek Iyer

    Sr. Software Engineer

    Apache Pinot Committer | 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.

    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.

    Stripe
    Stripe

    David Yang

    Software Engineer

    David has worked at Stripe for over 4 years and is a part of the Stream Analytics team. He's focused on making Pinot reliable at Stripe and increasing user adoption of the database. He's worked on streaming systems for the past 8+ years and enjoys distributed systems.

    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)
    StarTree (Logo for All-Stars Page)

    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.

    Raft
    Raft

    Robert Zych

    Software Engineer

    Robert is an active Pinot contributor that has supported and developed use cases at DoorDash and Guitar Center. He currently works at Raft developing a real-time data platform for the Air Force.

    One Way Solution
    One Way Solution

    Luan Moreno M. Maciel

    CEO & Data Architect

    Considered a “Problem-Solver” in his work, Luan Moreno is an addicted learner who works with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, Microsoft SQL Server, Big Data, Kafka, Spark, Druid, Pinot, and Kubernetes. Focused on Microsoft Azure and SQL Server, delivering solutions in an IaaS/PaaS/SaaS model, strived to provide the best data solution based on the client's needs, and committed to sharing and collaborating.

    Uber
    Uber

    Caner Balci

    Sr. Software Engineer

    Caner is a Software Engineer at Uber's Realtime Analytics Team. He has been working on various features that makes Pinot useful at Uber, including the Spark Connector, Dimension (Lookup) Tables and Datasketches support.

    How do I apply?

    Nominations are closed for 2024. If you have any questions, please contact our Community Team at community@startree.ai.