Data Streaming: Past, Present, and Future

Ben Gamble A long builder of AI powered games, simulations, and collaborative user experiences, Ben has previously built a global logistics company, Large scale online games and Augmented reality apps. Ben curre...

Dustin Nest Dustin Nest specializes in the creation of engaging technical training content and is StreamNative's full-time Technical Trainer. He brings to StreamNative over seven years of experience in software technical support, debugging, and training content development. He has both a BS and PhD in Chemical Engineering, with additional training and experience in C++, C#, Java, JS, and React. Dustin is excited to be your guide as you learn how to build scalable messaging and streaming applications using Apache Pulsar.

Gaurav Saxena Enterprise Streaming Architect (Automotive Industry)

Hugo Smitter Principal Platform Architect, FICO

Kundan Vyas Director, Product & Partnerships at StreamNative, owning the end-to-end cloud product portfolio across Serverless, Dedicated, and BYOC offerings for Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, and Agentic AI. Leads strategy and execution for lakehouse-native integrations with partners across Iceberg and Delta ecosystems, delivering AI-ready, real-time data platforms. Also owns global partnerships across cloud service providers, ISVs, and system integrators—driving co-build, co-sell, and go-to-market initiatives that accelerate customer adoption, expansion, and new logo growth.

Matteo Merli Matteo is the CTO at StreamNative, where he brings rich experience in distributed pub-sub messaging platforms. Matteo was one of the co-creators of Apache Pulsar during his time at Yahoo!. Matteo worked to create a global, distributed messaging system for Yahoo!, which would later become Apache Pulsar. Matteo is the PMC Chair of Apache Pulsar, where he helps to guide the community and ensure the success of the Pulsar project. He is also a PMC member for Apache BookKeeper. Matteo lives in Menlo Park, California.

Naveen Punjabi Director of Partnership, Google Cloud

Sijie Guo Sijie’s journey with Apache Pulsar began at Yahoo! where he was part of the team working to develop a global messaging platform for the company. He then went to Twitter, where he led the messaging infrastructure group and co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. In 2017, he co-founded Streamlio, which was acquired by Splunk, and in 2019 he founded StreamNative. He is one of the original creators of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, and remains VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC Member of Apache Pulsar. Sijie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.