Meet Materialize

Alexander was previously at AWS where he worked on the Kinesis Data Analytics and ML Forecasting teams, and at VMWare on a team that builds and operates an in-house data lake. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Berlin.

Petros was the former CTO and co-founder of balena.io where he led the engineering team and raised multiple rounds of investment.

Nikhil is the tech lead of the SQL team at Materialize. He previously worked on the replication engine for CockroachDB. He has an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard, where he did research on streaming dataflow systems.

Ufuk was previously a co-founder at Ververica where he worked on the open-source Apache Flink project and Ververica Platform. He studied CS in Berlin and Zurich. At Materialize, Ufuk is part of the engineering management team.

Nicolle was previously a software developer at KX. She holds a M.Sc. in applied mathematics from Northwestern.

Andreas has parallelized Common Lisp build systems, internationalized Motif applications and worked on graph databases. Most recently, he worked on reliability and improving incident response at Stripe.

Dan is the tech lead for the persistence team. He previously worked in entity extraction and infrastructure at Cockroach Labs, Foursquare, and Google.

Moritz was previously an engineer at Google. Moritz holds a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, where he did research on distributed dataflow systems.

Matt was previously at Stack Overflow and CoreOS, and an early engineer at Cockroach Labs.

Chae was previously at Software Engineer at Stripe, expanding non-card payments, and Dropbox, where he helped rewrite and rearchitect the desktop client sync engine in Rust. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia University with research focusing on memory and caching in heterogenous architectures.

Ruchir was previously at AppNexus where he worked on making internet ad auctions go zoom! He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Columbia University.

Aljoscha was a co-founder of Ververica/DataArtisans and is a member of the open-source Apache Flink and Apache Beam projects. Before that, he studied Computer Science at TU Berlin and DHBW Stuttgart. Aljoscha enjoys learning languages, cooking, and yoga.

Martin is a recent addition to the Materialize team. He was previously a Technology Manager at NuoDB where he managed all aspects of a distributed database from SQL to distributed transactions.

Jessica joined Materialize as the fifth engineer, coming from Goldman Sachs and Bluecore. She’s focused on building out the Materialize ecosystem.

Eli previously worked in edge networking and performance optimization at AWS, Facebook, and various startups. He currently manages the dataflow and SQL teams.

Sean spent a decade in technical writing before earning his MS in computing systems from Georgia Tech and moving into engineering. He built Materialize’s first documentation site and now focuses on extending its SQL API.

Brandon has a long career in startups and brings his wealth of experience integrating eventually-consistent microservice architectures as a deep empathy for how Materialize can reduce sleepless nights for our users. As an early engineer at Materialize, he has touched most parts of the product and is currently focusing on making it easy to get data into Materialize from a variety of sources.

Tony manages the Cloud team at Materialize. He was previously an engineering manager at Google, where he specialized in large-scale distributed systems. He has an B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

An Archaeology dropout, Philip held QA positions at MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster and NuoDB, and is the author of testing tools that are widely used in the database community.

Karen is the first frontend engineer at Materialize. She has an MS from UC Berkeley’s School of Information and over ten years’ startup experience. Her previous background was in UI design, digital art, and free software advocacy. Karen is the creator of Ferris the Rustacean.

Brennan is a programmer interested in performance, reliability, and efficiency, formerly working on international expansion at Amazon and mobile app infrastructure at Facebook. At Materialize, he focuses on the ingress and decoding of data from various sources.

Andi has been focusing on query and view performance since joining Materialize in September 2019. Previously, she was at Oracle, where she was an engineer on the Endeca Server and Oracle Machine Learning teams. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.