Zander Matheson is the CEO and founder of Bytewax, a company focused on making stream processing more accessible and efficient for all users, regardless of their level of expertise. A seasoned data engineer, Zander has been actively involved in the data space since 2014, holding positions at Heroku, GitHub, and an NLP startup. Prior to his technical career, he attended business school at UT Austin and HEC Paris in Europe. Zander's vision led to the founding of Bytewax with the aim of making data streaming in Python more accessible. Under his leadership, Bytewax has developed a Python-native, highly scalable, and cloud-native stream processing framework that has been open-sourced for the benefit of the broader tech community.