Nico Kruber is an Apache Flink committer working as Head of Solution Architecture at Ververica, helping clients and the open-source community get the most out of Apache Flink. For this, Nico can leverage his in-depth knowledge of Flink, Ververica Platform, and the expertise of his colleagues at Ververica and Alibaba. Nico holds a PhD in computer science from his research on parallel and distributed systems at the Zuse Institute Berlin, where he developed a transactional key-value store.