Ever since I was a kid, I was very passionate about computers. When I was in grade IV, I joined a hardware institute in India to build my own PC. Back then, I would use that hand-built PC with a 486 processor to play games like Dave. My hardware guru introduced me to my first programming language "Visual Basic". I build a very basic application for my dad that would help him keep track of inventory at his tire shop. After pursing my masters in computer science at USC and interning at CallFire - A VOIP company and Mindjolt - A gaming company, I started working at Yahoo as a Software Engineer in the Ads and Data Platform team. I learned a lot about building applications at scale and got introduced to Hadoop and the magic of Map Reduce at Yahoo about a decade ago. After 5 years at Yahoo, I joined a 30 person startup called AtScale to help build a BI platform that can make it easy for customer to query terabytes of data really fast. For the last couple of years, I have been with Godaddy and we are building our streaming data platform using beam and flink to make data available to our downstream customers in a low latency fashion. I am an Apache Beam contributor and love spending time with my son and wife.