Karthik Ramasamy has more than 20 years of experience including being CPO of Big Data startup that got acquired by Twitter. Karthik is entrepreneurial, energetic executive and technologist with strong leadership skills. He has extensive background in technology, engineering, product management and business development. Intimately familiar with trends and drivers in Big Data, Cloud Applications, Data Center and Network technologies. Karthik also has a strong technical background in Big Data, Hadoop, Cassandra, Parallel Database Systems, Network Routing and Switching, AWS. Very deep understanding including Map/Reduce, Real Time Streaming, Interactive Querying, Distributed Query Execution, Query Scheduling and Route Forwarding Algorithms. Karthik is theauthor of the best selling book "Network Routing - Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures, several publications and ten patents in large scale data processing. Now he is Head of Streaming at Databricks