Martin Traverso

Martin Traverso is the cofounder of the Presto Software Foundation and CTO at Starburst. Prior to Starburst, Martin worked as a software engineer at Facebook where he saw the need for fast interactive SQL analytics. Martin and three other engineer worked to create what became Presto. Martin led the Presto development team and in the spring of 2013 Presto was rolled out into production, later made opensource in the fall of 2013. Since then, Presto has gained wide adoption both internal and external to Facebook.

Prior to Facebook, Martin was an architect at Proofpoint and Ning, where he led development and architecture design of numerous complex enterprise and social network applications.