Speaker: Mike Demmer

Mike is a member of Slack's Infrastructure Engineering team, where he works on hard problems of scalability and reliability and leads the development of Slack's next generation database architecture. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Jut -- a startup applying a new dataflow language to observability for developers and operations engineers. Prior to that, he was at Riverbed where he was part of the founding development team for the Steelhead WAN accelerator and later led the Pilot/Shark team building network analytics products based on the wireshark open source packet capture technology. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and likes working on scaling distributed systems and performance.