Mike is a principal engineer at Medidata Solutions working on building a next generation data platform for clinical data and trials. By leveraging the power of open source technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg, Mike along with his team has enabled the delivery of billions of clinical events and data transformations in near real time to downstream consumers and applications. His core skills focus on architecting and building big data and ETL solutions at scale, with an emphasis on real time analytics and modern lakehouse solutions.