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StarTree All-Stars

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Nominations are now open for the All Stars class of 2025!

StarTree All-Stars Program

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!

StarTree All-Stars Program

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.

Recognition and Rewards

Meet the Class 2024

Johan Adami
stripe

Johan Adami

Software Engineer

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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.

Neha Pawar
startree

Neha Pawar

Founding Engineer

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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.

Elon Azoulay
starburst

Elon Azoulay

Staff Software Engineer

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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.

Ting Chen
uber

Ting Chen

Staff Software Engineer

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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.

Ujwala Tulshigiri
uber

Ujwala Tulshigiri

Engineering Manager II

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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.

Saurabh Dubey
startree

Saurabh Dubey

Software Engineer

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

Xiang Fu
startree

Xiang Fu

Co-founder & Founding Engineer

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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.

Yupeng Fu
uber

Yupeng Fu

Principal Engineer

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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.

Evan Galpin
dialpad

Evan Galpin

Engineering Manager

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

Sharayu Gandhi
linkedin

Sharayu Gandhi

Senior Software Engineer

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Sharayu is a passionate developer who loves working on Pinot. She has recently contributed the Segment Assignment Strategy Interface to Apache Pinot!

Jackie Jiang
startree

Jackie Jiang

Founding Engineer

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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
startree

Kartik Khare

Software Engineer

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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

Ken Krugler

President, Scale Unlimited

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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
wepay

Akshath Kumar

Senior Staff Engineer

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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
startree

Seunghyun Lee

Software Engineer

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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
linkedin

Jialiang Li

Senior Software Engineer

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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.

Shruti Mantri
moveworks

Shruti Mantri

Software Architect

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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.

Sajjad Moradi
linkedin

Sajjad Moradi

Software Engineer

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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
oneway

Mateus Oliveira

Data Architect

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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.

Chris Prokopiak
sovrn

Chris Prokopiak

Principal Software Engineer

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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
startree

Alexander Pucher

Founding Engineer

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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
startree

Rong Rong

Software Engineer

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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

Anand Sainath

Co-Founder at Stealth

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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.

Atri Sharma
uber

Atri Sharma

Sr. Principal Engineer

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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
startree

Mayank Shrivastava

Founding Engineer | Head of Data Engineering

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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.

Siddharth Teotia
linkedin

Siddharth Teotia

Staff Software Engineer

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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.

Vivek Iyer
linkedin

Vivek Iyer

Sr. Software Engineer

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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

Lakshmanan Velusamy

Engineering Lead

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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.

David Yang
stripe

David Yang

Software Engineer

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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.

Haitao Zhang
startree

Haitao Zhang

Software Engineer

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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.

Robert Zych
raft

Robert Zych

Software Engineer

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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.

Luan Moreno M. Maciel
oneway

Luan Moreno M. Maciel

CEO & Data Architect

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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.

Caner Balci
uber

Caner Balci

Sr. Software Engineer

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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.

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