All Things Performance

Neha Pawar

Founding Engineer and Head of Data at StarTree

Neha Pawar is a Founding Engineer, and Head of Data Infra at StarTree (https://www.startree.ai/), which aims to democratize data for all users by providing real-time, user-facing analytics. Prior to this, she was part of LinkedIn's Data Analytics Infrastructure org for 5 years, working on Apache Pinot & ThirdEye. She is passionate about big data technologies and real-time analytics databases. Neha is an Apache Pinot PMC and Committer. She has made numerous impactful contributions to Apache Pinot, with a focus on realtime streaming engine and ingestion. At StarTree, she led initiatives such as Tiered Storage and StarTree Serverless. She actively fosters the growing Apache Pinot and StarTree community & loves to evangelize Pinot by making entertaining video tutorials & illustrations, writing blogs and delivering tech talks. When not sipping Pinot, you can find Neha jamming with her husband, painting or hiking with her dogs.

Jake Hillion

Software Engineer at Meta

Jake Hillion is a Software Engineer at Meta. Working on scheduling with sched_ext. Experience deploying novel userspace schedulers to production and building the features needed to outperform existing kernel schedulers, debugging application performance along the way. Previous experience working on debuggers and memory profiling, with a focus on writing high performance memory efficient C++.

Rachel Stephens

Research Director at Red Monk

Rachel Stephens is a Research Director with RedMonk and has been with the firm since 2016. Rachel comes to RedMonk with a wealth of financial experience, and she applies this quantitative lens to her analysis. Her focus is broad (as it is for all of the RedMonk analysts), but she devotes a lot of time to emerging growth technologies. Before joining RedMonk, Rachel worked as a database administrator and financial analyst. Rachel holds an MBA with a Business Intelligence certification from Colorado State University and a BA in Finance from the University of Colorado. She is currently based in Denver, Colorado.

Tulika Bhatt

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Tulika Bhatt is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, specializing in Personalization Data Engineering. With nearly a decade of experience spanning industries such as digital media, fintech, and telecommunications, Tulika has a proven track record of leveraging data to drive impactful user experiences. At Netflix, Tulika manages datasets that power content recommendations for over 250 million plus subscribers, processing trillions of data points annually. Previously, she held key roles at BlackRock, developing cloud-native financial applications and optimizing machine learning workflows, and at Verizon, where she enhanced self-service adoption through innovative web solutions. An alumna of Columbia University (M.S. in Computer Science), Tulika is passionate about sharing knowledge through speaking engagements, mentoring aspiring engineers, and contributing to industry conversations on data-driven innovation.

Avi Kivity

CTO and Co-Founder of ScyllaDB

Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.

Pekka Enberg

Founder & CTO at Turso

Pekka Enberg is the Founder & CTO at Turso.

Dor Laor

CEO of ScyllaDB

Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.

Cristian Velazquez

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber

Cristian Velazquez is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.

Jens Axboe

Software Engineer at Meta

Jens Axboe is a Software Engineer at Meta. Axboe is the current Linux kernel maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, along with contributing the CFQ I/O scheduler, Noop scheduler, Deadline scheduler, io_uring, and the splice I/O architecture. Jens is also the author of the blktrace utility and kernel parts, which provides a way to trace every block I/O activity in the Linux kernel. blktrace exists in 2.6.17 and later Linux kernels.

Glauber Costa

Founder & CEO of Turso

Glauber is a veteran low-level engineer with a strong focus on performance and resource management. He has worked with a variety of subsystems in the Linux Kernel, most notably the KVM Hypervisor and the cgroups resource management infrastructure that created the foundations of the containers revolution. Glauber had spent many years with ScyllaDB working with both business and technical issues, specializing in storage I/O and automated resource controlling. Currently he is the Founder & CEO of Turso, where he authored the Glommio asynchronous framework for Rust.

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Technical Director at ScyllaDB

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes is a Technical Director at ScyllaDB.