Karthik Ramasamy is the Head of Streaming at Databricks. Before Databricks, he was a Senior Director of Engineering, managing the Pulsar team at Splunk. He was the CEO of Streamlio focused on building Apache Pulsar and led the acquisition of Streamlio by Splunk. Before Streamlio, he was the technical lead for real-time infrastructure at Twitter where he created Twitter Heron. He worked with companies such as Greenplum and Juniper in building parallel databases, big data infrastructure and networking. He founded Locomatix that specialized in streaming processing on Hadoop and Cassandra, which was acquired by Twitter. Karthik has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a focus on big data and databases.