SPEAKER PROFILE

Gerard Maas contributes to Lightbend’s Fast Data Platform as a SW Engineer, where he focuses on the integration of stream processing technologies. Previously, he has held leading roles at several startups and large enterprises, building data science governance, cloud-native IoT platforms and scalable APIs.
He enjoys giving tech talks, contributing to small and large open source projects, tinkering with drones and building personal IoT projects.
He is co-author of the Learning Spark Streaming book, from O’Reilly Media.