scala.bythebay.io: Avrillia Floratou Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Avrillia Floratou Avrillia is a Senior Scientist at Microsoft's Cloud and Information Services Lab, where her research is focused on scalable real-time stream processing systems. She is also an active contributor to Heron, collaborating with Twitter. Prior to her current role, she was a research scientist in IBM Research working on SQL-on-Hadoop systems. She holds a PhD in data management from University of Wisconsin-Madison.