Piotr Nowojski is a Software Engineer in Ververica and Flink committer working mostly on Flink’s runtime code. Previously, he was a Software Engineer in Teradata working on Presto – distributed batch SQL query engine.

Yuan Mei is the architect of Flink Engine at Alibaba (joined Sept. 2019). Before that, she led to building Turbine: Facebook’s Service Management Platform for Stream Processing (ICDE2020). She has various experiences building Stream Processing Systems (Puma, VLDB2018) and many other realtime systems at Facebook (SIGMOD2016). She holds a Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL, under the supervision of Prof. Samuel Madden & Prof. Michael Stonebraker.