built by obsessive performance engineers.
Team
Alexander Gallego
Alex is the founder and CEO of Vectorized. Most recently, he was a Principal Engineer at Akamai where he led the virtualization initiative (side-by-side containers and VM’s) through Kubernetes. In a previous life he was the founder and CTO of Concord Systems - a distributed stream processor written in C++ atop Apache Mesos, acquired by Akamai in 2016.
Noah Watkins
Noah is a software engineer at Vectorized. Previously, he worked on the Rook project at Red Hat focused on Ceph orchestration in Kubernetes. Noah received his Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Cruz in 2018 studying distributed storage systems, and before that was hacking on real-time Linux at the University of Kansas.
Michal Maslanka
Michal is the in-house Chaos Engineering Expert at Vectorized. Previously, he was in the Akamai Distributed Data Engineering group working on storage for IoT.
David Castillo
David is a software engineer at Vectorized. He is a co-organizer of ScaleConf Colombia, a tech conference about scalability, distributed systems, security, machine learning and modern software practices. Previously, he was a consultant for Fortune 500 companies focused on automating core infrastructure. In his free time, he enjoys perusing distributed systems papers and drinking tea.
Kostas Kyrimis
Kostas is a software engineer at Vectorized. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University Of Edinburgh and is extremely passionate about C++ and algorithms. He previously worked on the implementation of the SYCL Khronos Group open standard and enjoys talking about C++ at conferences around the world.
Sarah Rohrbach
Sarah is the Head of Operations at Vectorized. She specializes in product and content management for startups and recently has become an aspiring C++ developer. Before joining Vectorized, she finished her first science-fiction novel that we are all anxiously waiting to read!
Advisors
Abel Mathew
Abel is an advisor of Vectorized and the CEO and co-founder of Backtrace. Previously, he was the head of optimization engineering at Appnexus.
Duarte Nunes
Duarte is an advisor of Vectorized. Previously, he was a committer to ScyllaDB, a Cassandra replacement in C++. His background is in concurrent programming, distributed systems and low latency software.