Program Committee

Artem Chebotko Solutions Architect, DataStax

German Eichberger Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Sharan Foga Director, Community and Developer Relations, Instaclustr by NetApp

Mary Grygleski Streaming Developer Advocate, DataStax

Mary is a Java Champion and a passionate Streaming Developer Advocate at DataStax, a leading data management company that champions Open Source software and specializes in Big Data, DB-as-a-service, Streaming, and Cloud-Native systems. She spent 3.5 years previously as a very effective advocate at IBM, focusing on Java, Jakarta EE, OpenJ9, Open Source, Cloud, and Distributed/Reactive Systems. She transitioned from Unix/C to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. She considers herself a polyglot and loves to continue learning new and better ways to solve real-life problems. She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and is currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), as well as a co-organizer for several IBM-sponsored meetup groups in the Greater Chicago area.

Kirsten Hunter Developer Advocate, DataStax

Pallavi Iyengar Software Engineer 2, Microsoft

Dinesh Joshi Apache Cassandra PMC Member & Senior Engineering Manager, Apple

Benjamin Lerer Apache Cassandra PMC Member and Tech Lead, DataStax

Melissa Logan CEO & Founder, Constantia.io

Patrick McFadin Apache Casssandra Committer and Developer Relations, DataStax

Josh McKenzie Software Engineer, Apple

Josh is a committer and PMC member who has worked on Apache Cassandra since early 2014 for various companies and in various roles. He’s the author of Change Data Capture, Denylisting, multiple guardrails, the JVM Stability inspector, and generally has his fingers in a lot of pies. He currently works for Apple on their Cassandra Storage team.