The only true SQL streaming database
The simplicity of SQL queries, but with millisecond-level latency for real-time data. That is Materialize, the only true SQL streaming database for building internal tools, interactive dashboards, and customer-facing experiences.
We are not “disrupting” or changing the behaviors of the world’s population, but instead building something that works in a space where most products simply do not. Our work builds on top of Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, both created by our co-founder Frank McSherry.
Arjun was previously an engineer at Cockroach Labs. Arjun holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He spends his weekends making Lego rockets and explosion sounds with his 3-year old son.
Frank was previously at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley where he co-invented Differential Privacy, and subsequently led the Naiad project. Frank holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Albert was director of product at Datadog, and was the first employee at Crunchyroll. He has a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard.
Craig was previously head of product marketing and strategy at Percolate, an enterprise content marketing platform.
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.
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.
Matt was previously at Stack Overflow and CoreOS, and an early engineer at Cockroach Labs.
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.
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 the fourth 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.
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.
Micole was previously at Xandr, a division of Warner Media. She has a B.A. in English from Yale.
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.
Amanda joined Materialize in 2021 to help convey and promote the power of Materialize. She previously worked at a cybersecurity start-up, as well as in E-commerce at Walmart (formerly Jet.com). She has a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University.
Charles is part of the Sales team helping users successfully deploy Materialize. Charles was previously at Elastic and Stack Overflow.
Andy works on content and community at Materialize, he comes from DigitalOcean where he was director of community growth.
Charles joined Materialize in 2021 to build out strategy and operations. He was previously an Investor at RRE Ventures working with hundreds of start-ups at varying stages of development and an Investment Banking Associate at Goldman Sachs working on transactions in the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors.
Sean has over a decade of experience as a Technical Recruiter. During his career, he has had the privilege of being the first recruiter at two early-stage SaaS companies (Cylance and JASK). His primary focus at Materialize is building the engineering team.
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Krishna joins Materialize with previous experience as an engineer and architect at MemSQL, Oracle, and Symantec. He is passionate about customer success.
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Materialize is built on top of a powerful stream processing engine: Timely Dataflow. Inspired by the award-winning Naiad project, Timely Dataflow has been in open-source development for 4 years and runs in production deployments at scale.
