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.

Hannah managed product development of Flexport’s first SaaS offering and has worked in data analytics across public and private sectors. She holds a BA in Economics and a Masters in Public Policy.

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.

Rami joins the cloud team at Materialize after building multi-cloud experiences at Coiled and Anaconda. He’s built a series of startups since earning degrees from the University of Oxford and University College London, was named a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and is known for his tall purple hats.

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.

Lukas was previously doing his PhD in operating systems and formal methods. Now he is looking to find sanity and peace in data processing.

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.

Joe previously worked on Apache Fluo, a distributed incremental data processing system. After that, he received an M.S. in Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on database research. He has a passion for all things related to databases and distributed systems.

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.

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.

Jeannette is an engineer on the Cloud team. She has spent her career building distributed data pipelines and designing robust observability and stability strategies for cloud native systems. She has an M.S. in Computer Science from CU Boulder, with a focus on Human Language Technologies.

Marcos was previously an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he led research on building declarative and efficient systems to support data-intensive applications with low-latency requirements. He has a PhD from ETH Zurich and was a postdoc at Cornell University.

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.

Jan worked previously at VMRay, where he helped develop their hypervisor-based malware analyzer and lead the static analysis team. He holds a B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering and an M.Sc. in IT Security.

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.

Most recently, Gus worked on cluster management for large scale services, and handling large outages helps him recognize the value of reliable software. He brings experience building services with Rust, and is a passionate Rustacean!