Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai is an Apache Flink PMC and Software Engineer at Ververica. He is currently working on the Stateful Functions API (https://statefun.io) in Apache Flink. In the past, he has contributed to various other parts of the Apache Flink project, including some of the more popular streaming connectors for Flink (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.) as well as several topics surrounding evolvability of stateful Flink streaming applications.

Igal is a Team lead of the Applications API team at Ververica, where he mostly works on expending the use of stream processing to new frontiers, previously he was working on Apache Flink, and the Ververica Platform. His interests are around distributed systems, writing clean and testable code.

Stephan Ewen is CTO and co-founder at Ververica where he leads the development of the stream processing platform based on open source Apache Flink. He is also a PMC member and one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Before working on Apache Flink, Stephan worked on in-memory databases, query optimization, and distributed systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Berlin University of Technology.