Panagiotis Garefalakis is a Software Engineer at Confluent where he is part of the Flink runtime team. He’s spent the last several years working on open-source big data systems and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College London where he was affiliated with the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group. His interests lie within the broad area of systems including large-scale distributed systems, big data processing, resource management and streaming.