Karthik Ramasamy, Head of Streaming, Databricks
Karthik Ramasamy has more than two decades of experience in real-time data processing, parallel databases, big data infrastructure, and networking. Before becoming head of streaming at Databricks, he was the co-founder and CEO of Streamlio, which was acquired by Splunk. Previously, he was engineering manager and technical lead for real-time analytics at Twitter, where he co-created the Heron real-time engine. Prior to Twitter, Karthik was co-founder of Locomatix, a company specialized in real-time processing on Hadoop and Cassandra, and worked at Greenplum and Juniper Networks. He is the author of several publications and patents and co-author of “Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures.”
