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Singapore 2025
Program Committee

FFA Singapore 2025

About the Program Committee

Our program committee take responsibility for planning and shaping the program of Flink Forward. They make sure to rate talks in different dimensions to create a balanced program including deeply technical talks and high-level use cases. Diversity is also a crucial aspect for the program committee - they strive to improve and support the presence of underrepresented groups at the conference.

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Program committee

Junhua Wang Vice President and Head of Computing Platform, Alibaba Cloud, Program Commitee Chair Alibaba Cloud
Akash Deep Goel Head of Data Engineering Goto
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Head of Data Engineering at GoTo Group, where he leads the design and development of a modern data engineering platform supporting both real-time and batch processing for critical financial and payment use cases. His engineering philosophy emphasizes simplifying complex business challenges using cloud-native principles such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Data as a Service (DaaS), and event-driven architecture. He is a strong proponent of open-source technologies, working extensively with tools like Apache Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and more. He is also currently spearheading the cloud migration of GoTo’s data engineering platform, with a focus on building scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and observable infrastructure.
Becket (Jiangjie) Qin Principal Staff Software Engineer LinkedIn
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Becket is currently a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, driving the effort of stream and batch unification. Before that, he led the Alibaba Flink team focusing on Flink SQL, PyFlink, Flink ML, Connectors, among others. Prior to Alibaba, Becket worked at LinkedIn on building streams infrastructures around Apache Kafka. Becket is a PMC member of Apache Flink and Apache Kafka.
Cheng Feng Head of Engineering, Data Engineering Platforms Grab
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Cheng is looking after most of Grab's Big Data Infrastructure & Toolings: Kafka Infrastructure & Self service tooling, SDK, etc; Streaming processing Flink Infrastructure & Self service tooling, SDK, etc; Data Lake Infrastructure (Ingestion, Storage, Compute engines (Spark/Trino/Starrocks/Pinot), Access, Govancernce, etc ); Metric & BI Infrastructure (Data catalog, data quality, BI tools, etc)
Feng Wang Head of Open Data Platform, Alibaba Cloud, Apache Flink Committer, Apache Paimon PMC Member Alibaba Cloud
Guanghui Zhang Streaming Compute Team Leader Bytedance
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Zhang Guanghui has been building the Streaming Computing Platform with Apache Flink at Douyin Vision Ltd., supporting real-time computing requirements for businesses including Toutiao, Douyin.
Honglin Zhang Head of data analytics & engineering A Leading Global Blockchain Exchange
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Honglin is head of data analytics & engineering at a leading global blockchain exchange.He specialised in building scalable data platform, enabling realtime analytics across hybrid cloud environments.

Jingsong Lee PMC Chair of Apache Paimon, PMC member of Apache Flink, Head of Alibaba Open-source Data Lake Platform team Alibaba Cloud
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Head of Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Platform, responsible for the research and development of Apache Paimon & Apache Iceberg and its products, PMC Chair of Apache Paimon,PMC member of Apache Flink, Committer of Apache Iceberg. Jingsong Lee have been engaged in distributed streaming computing, distributed batch computing, and lake storage, and currently focus on the technology of lakehouse.

Luo Li Director of Data Infra @ Shopee Shopee
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Luo is the manager of the Data Infrastructure team at Shopee, responsible for building and maintaining Batch, Streaming, and OLAP systems, as well as developing Shopee’s internal data development and management platform. Also lead efforts in cluster maintenance, monitoring, and performance optimization.
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