David is a Staff Software Engineer at Confluent and one of the Co-Founders of Immerok, which became part of Confluent with the recent acquisition. He's spent most of the last decade working on petabyte-scale data pipelines, messing with database internals, and pushing forward some fantastic engineering teams. His current focus is on the deployment and coordination layer of Apache Flink, making it into the elastic stream processor. David is an Apache Beam and Apache Flink committer.