Gerard Maas

Gerard Maas is a Principal Engineer at Lightbend, where he works on the seamless integration of Structured Streaming and other scalable stream processing technologies into the Lightbend Platform. Previously, he worked at a cloud-native IoT startup where he led the data processing team on building the streaming pipelines that pushed Spark Streaming to its limits in terms of throughput. Back then, he published the first comprehensive guide to tune Spark Streaming performance.

Gerard has held leading roles at several startups and large enterprises, building data science governance, cloud-native IoT platforms, telecom platforms, and scalable APIs. He is a regular speaker at technology conferences and contributes to small and large open source projects. Gerard has a degree in Computer Engineering from the Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela. You can find him on twitter as @maasg.