Xiaoman Dong has devoted his past 10+ years working in the streaming analytics and database domain, building data infrastructure, scalable distributed systems, and low latency queries over large datasets. During his work in StarTree, and Uber, he has designed, led, built, and operated several large-scale business-critical solutions based on open-source software like Apache Kafka, Apache Pinot, Apache Flink, and Kubernetes. While working in Stripe, he has also built and run the world’s largest single Pinot cluster with around 1 trillion rows and 1 PB in size.
Xiaoman is also an advocate of Big Data and distributed OLAP systems. He has been actively speaking at large tech conferences Kafka Summit, Flink Forward, and ApacheCon in recent years.